Fusarium abundance and diversity and Alternaria abundance on grasses and wheat ears after the infection with Fusarium graminearum, Fusarium culmorum and Fusarium sporotrichioides with and without irrigation

In 2020 and 2021, a field experiment was conducted in a winter wheat field on the research area at the Leibniz Centre of Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) Müncheberg to evaluate the influence of highly infected grasses and irrigation on the spread and the diversity of Fusarium fungi.
A sown grass stripe next to a winter wheat field was infected by soil inoculation (October 2020) with 3 different Fusarium species (F. graminearum, F. culmorum, and F. sporotrichioides). In June and July of 2021, Fusarium and Alternaria abundance both in the wheat field (along a transect up to 64m into the field) and in the grass stripe were analyzed by qPCR with extracted DNA out of dried and ground samples. Furthermore, Fusarium species diversity was analyzed by culture-dependent methods. The mycotoxins DON and ZEA were analyzed from the harvest samples. One half of the wheat field was additionally irrigated.This table contains the index of all tables forming this data collection.

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