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ANIMAL FEED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 148, Issue 2-4, Pages 309-320Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.anifeedsci.2008.02.004
Keywords
Fungi; HPLC-MS; Mature maize silage; Multimycotoxin; PCR
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- Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (Comite de l'Orne)
- Conseil General du Calvados
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Agricultural activities involve daily use Of maize silage as feed for livestock, which can be contaminated by mycotoxigenic molds. To evaluate fungal contamination. and the production of mycotoxins in maize silage we propose a multi-disciplinary approach utilizing PCR methods with genes of the aflatoxin (ver-1, omt-1 and apa-2), fumonisin (FUMI) and trichothecene (TR16) biosynthesis pathways. To detect Aspergillus fumigatus, it 26S/intergenic spacer region of the rDNA complex was amplified. These specific PCR assays allowed. three major groups of toxigenic fungi-like aflatoxin-producing Aspergilli, fumonisin and trichothecene-producing Fusaria, and the ubiquitous mold A. fumigatus, to be targeted. A multimycotoxin method is also proposed to simultaneously quantify seven mycotoxins (i.e., aflatoxin B-1, citrinin, deoxynivalenol, fumonisin B-1, gliotoxin, ochratoxin A, zearalenone) in maize silage by high-perforrnance liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS). These microbiological and analytical tools revealed three potentially toxigenic groups of fungi and A. fumigatus grown from mature maize silage (I I month old) that was collected in Normandy (France) and the, mycotoxins aflatoxin 13, (7.0-51.3 mu g/kg), citrinin (10.1-14.2 mu g/kg), deoxynivalenol (128.0-181.0 mu g/kg) and gliotoxin (6.6-11.9 mu g/kg). Results indicate that the combination of PCR and HPLC-MS can be used to assess fungal quality of maize silages. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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