Microfungi on the kernels of transgenic and non-transgenic maize damaged by the European corn borer
2007
Remesova, J.,Ceska Zemedelska Univ., Prague (Czech Republic). Katedra Ochrany Rostlin | Kolarik, M.,Karlova Univ., Prague (Czech Republic). Katedra Botaniky | Prasil, K.,Karlova Univ., Prague (Czech Republic). Katedra Botaniky
From 2002 to 2004 isolations were carried out to determine the kinds and abundance of microfungi from non-transgenic maize kernels damaged by the European corn borer (ECB) and from transgenic Bt-maize (enriched with delta-endotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis). Bt-maize and non-transgenic maize were grown at two different localities in the Czech Republic. Thirty-one taxa of filamentous microfungi were isolated, including eight zygomycetes and twenty-three ascomycetes (anamorphic stage). Presence of ECB, corn treatment, year, locality and isolation method significantly accounted for differences in fungus communities. Bt-maize was significantly different from the treatments with non-transgenic hybrids and was often associated with the potentially toxinogenic fungi Alternaria alternata and Epicoccum nigrum. Conversely, Bt-maize had lower incidences of Fusarium spp. and Acremonium strictum.
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