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- Title
Isolation, identification, and characterization of Ustilaginoidea virens from rice false smut balls with high ustilotoxin production potential.
- Authors
Lin, Xiaoyan; Bian, Yingfang; Mou, Renxiang; Cao, Zhaoyun; Cao, Zhenzhen; Zhu, Zhiwei; Chen, Mingxue
- Abstract
Ustilaginoidea (U.) virens grows on rice grains and leads to significant rice yield losses in most of the major rice producing areas. Meanwhile, ustiloxins produced by U. virens are a serious hazard to human health and ecological safety of farmlands. The other key point is that ustiloxins have been regarded as a novel resource with their potential in the treatment of cancers. There is no better way to extract ustiloxins than from pure culture of the high ustilotoxin‐producing strains. U. virens has become a key research organism. However, due to the presence of some interference components, it is a certain difficulty in the successful isolation of the strain from the false smut balls. We present here a detailed study based on the separation, screening and identification of high ustiloxins‐producing strains of U. virens. Through this study, we got a satisfactory success rate of separation and provided a good solution to the problem of separation. At the same time, this study provides quality resources for researchers interested in ustiloxins as anticancer agents.
- Subjects
FUNGI imperfecti; RICE diseases &; pests; RICE yields; CANCER treatment; ANTINEOPLASTIC agents
- Publication
Journal of Basic Microbiology, 2018, Vol 58, Issue 8, p670
- ISSN
0233-111X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jobm.201800167