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Mycotoxins are toxins produced by molds (fungi) and can accumulate in crops, where they pose health hazards to humans and animals. Mycotoxins are estimated to affect 25% of the world’s crops and cost US agriculture approximately $1 billion each year. more about mycotoxins
 All efforts to monitor and reduce mycotoxin contamination require reliable methods that detect and measure mycotoxins. Therefore, a major goal of MPM research is to develop sensitive and cost effective methods for detecting and measuring mycotoxins.
 Fungi that produce harmful mycotoxins can infect and contaminate many different cereal crops. Scientists in the MPM unit are helping growers and grain processors to mitigate losses and ensure food safety.
 MPM scientists are analyzing the diversity of devastating Fusarium fungal pathogens that cause disease of cereal crops and contaminate grain with harmful toxins. By understanding how Fusarium pathogen genomics influence disease outbreaks scientists can help farmers develop targeted control strategies to mitigate crop losses and ensure food safety.
 The ARS Culture Collection (NRRL) is responsible for breakthroughs that have increased agricultural productivity, enabled people to live longer and healthier lives, and contributed to a $175 billion per year bioeconomy in the United States.  Visit NRRL


**Mycotoxin Prevention and Applied Microbiology (MPM) Research** Mission Statement
What are Mycotoxins?
How are MPM Scientists Controlling Mycotoxins?


**MPM NEWS** Predictive models to manage mycotoxin outbreaks in the US New toxin facilitates disease infection and spread in wheat Congratulations Dr. Imane Laraba. After 4 years of working with MPM, Dr. Laraba has taken a full-time Research Scientist position with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Ottawa. We will miss you, Imane but look forward to continuing our collaborations. ARS scientists working to make wheat climate resilient Researchers Uncover 33 New Species of Toxic Fungi NCAUR People's Garden Peoria "Ag-Lab": Where Innovation and Outreach go Hand-in-Hand Readying Wheat with Climate Resiliency Penicillium Strain Named State Microbe of Illinois Illinois Women in Science Guardians of the Microbial Galaxy It is not a flower. It is a fungus! MPM Welcomes Dr. Briana Whitaker and Dr. Kirk Broders Friendly Fungus Protects Against Wheat Scab MPM Welcomes Dr. Hye-Seon Kilm, Dr. William Hay, Nathan Kemp, and Paige Pierson to the group USDA ARSResearch ParticipantShapes a Career inBiologicalScience 2019 Science Rocks Everyday Microbes results Safeguarding Food with a New Test Kit Dr. Kerry O'Donnell is inducted into the ARS Science Hall of Fame MPM Scientists study the evolution of structural diversity of fungal toxins 4 NCAUR Scientists are interviewed on WTVP Employing Wheat's Bacterial Partners to Fight a Pathogen Three MPM Scientists Receive Summer Internship Awards to Support Student Research Dr. Yi-Shu Tu (Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology) visited MPM to improve mycotoxin detection using quantum chemical methods and spectroscopy Dr. Imane Laraba (École Nationale supérieure Agronomique, Algiers) visited MPM to study mycotoxin potential in Fusarium species pathogenic to cereals Congratulations to Dr. Michael Appell on receiving Chemist of the Year award for the Heartland chapter of the American Chemical Society Briana Whitaker (Indiana University) visited MPM to study beneficial bacteria in wheat during an NSF-GRIP internship Dr. Martha Vaughan Speaks about Women in Science Carolina Bertuzzi Pereira (State University of Maringá, Brazil) visited MPM to study Fusarium head blight pathogen diversity ARS Culture Collection: A Valuable Resource Dr. Martha Vaughan is a 2017 USDA, ARS Scientist of the Year Dr. Cletus Kurtzman is inducted into the ARS Science Hall of Fame NCAUR celebrates it's 75th Anniversary Dr. Kerry O'Donnell is a 2013 USDA, ARS Scientist of the Year


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