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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 221, Issue -, Pages 61-68Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2016.01.005
Keywords
Fusarium; Type B trichothecenes; Chlorogenic acid; Caffeic acid; Biotransformation
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- Euralis (Blagnac, France)
- Monsanto (Peyrehorade, France)
- DGER (Direction Generale de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche) [10AAPIT]
- European Union [265865-PURE]
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Fusarium Head Blight and Gibberella Ear Rot, mainly caused by the fungi Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium culmorum, are two of the most devastating diseases of small-grain cereals and maize. In addition to yield loss, these diseases frequently result in contamination of kernels with toxic type B trichothecenes. The potential involvement of chlorogenic acid in cereal resistance to Fusarium Head Blight and Gibberella Ear Rot and to trichothecene accumulation was the focus of this study. The effects of chlorogenic acid and one of its hydrolyzed products, caffeic acid, on fungal growth and type B trichothecenes biosyntliesis were studied using concentrations close to physiological amounts quantified in kernels and a set of F. graminearum and F. culmorum strains. Both chlorogenic and caffeic acids negatively impact fungal growth and mycotoxin production, with caffeic acid being significantly more toxic. Inhibitory efficiencies of both phenolic acids were strain-dependent. To further investigate the antifungal and anti mycotoxin effect of chlorogenic and caffeic acids, the metabolic fate of these two phenolic adds was characterized in supplemented F. graminearum broths. For the first time, our results demonstrated the ability of F. graminearum to degrade chlorogenic acid into caffeic, hydroxychlorogenic and protocatechuic acids and caffeic acid into protocatechuic and hydroxycaffeic acids. Some of these metabolic products can contribute to the inhibitory efficiency of chlorogenic acid that, therefore, can be compared as a pro-drug. As a whole, our data corroborate the contribution of chlorogenic acid to the chemical defense that cereals employ to counteract F. graminearum and its production of mycotoxins. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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