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Holisitic MPMheadline bar **Holistic Mycotoxin Prevention Research Preventions** **How MPM Scientists are tackling the problem from diverse angles** /ARSUserFiles/50100525/images/mycotoxins/holistic mpm.png
 **Improving Food Safety by Controlling Mycotoxin Contamination and Enhancing Climate Resilience of Wheat and Barley** Forecasting: Impact of climate on host susceptibility and Fusarium virulence.
Breeding: Identify germplasm for breeders to target climate resilient mycotoxin resistance and high grain quality traits.
Biocontrol: Manipulate microbial populations to control....
Mitigate Post Harvest: Develop biofumigant to inhibit fungal growth and mycotoxin production during barley malting.
Identify Pathogen Virulence Traits/Effectors: F. graminearum core/population-specific virulence traits.
Regulatory Metabolites: Manipulate Fusarium metabolites to reduce F. graminearum inoculum in the field. **Innovative Food and Feed Safety Research to Eliminate Mycotoxin Contamination in Corn and other Crops** Gene Editing: Kernel-specific expression of RNAi targeting the fumonisin biosynthetic gene FUM1.
Identify Host Resistance/Mycotoxin Regulation Traits: Corn zmCRR1 protein, papain-like cysteine proteases, oxylipins.
Define Diversity of Mycotoxin-producing Fusarium species: F. tricinctum species complex, F. proliferatum and F. verticillioides.
Genetically Engineered: Use of killer meiotic drive element SkKto drive biased transmission of a gene that blocks fumonisin production. **Innovative Approaches to Monitor, Predict, and Reduce Fungal Toxins** Computational Toxicology: Develop models to assess health risks associated with regulated mycotoxins.
Remediation: Develop strategies to remove mycotoxins.
Detection: Develop tools to predict mycotoxin contamination in grain commodities using chemical fingerprinting techniques combined with machine learning. Develop tools to detect emerging toxins, their metabolites and masked forms.
Occurrence of Mycotoxins: Survey U.S. oats for mycotoxin contamination and associated fungi.


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