Production of beauvericin, moniliformin, fusaproliferin, and fumonisins B1, B2, and B3 by fifteen ex-type strains of Fusarium species

Fifteen Fusarium species were analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography for the production of six mycotoxins in corn grits cultures. Production of mycotoxins ranged from 66 to 2,500 mug/kg for fumonisin B, 0.6 to 1,500 mug/g for moniliformin, 2.2 to 720 mug/g for beauvericin, and 12 to 130 tLg/g for fusaproliferin. Fumonisin B-2 (360 mug/kg) was produced by two species, fumonisin B-3 was not detected in any of the 15 species examined, and Fusarium bulbicola produced none of the six mycotoxins that we analyzed.