- Study guides, Class notes & Summaries
Looking for the best study guides, study notes and summaries about ? On this page you'll find 1 study documents about .
1 results
Exam (elaborations)
DON (Vomitoxin) in Wheat Basic Questions and Answers
DON (Vomitoxin) in Wheat 
 Basic Questions and Answers 
 ■ What is DON? 
 Deoxynivalenol (DON), commonly referred to as vomitoxin, 
 is a mycotoxin that may be produced in wheat and barley 
 grain infected by Fusarium head blight (FHB) or scab. FHB 
 may infect grain heads when wet weather occurs during 
 the flowering and grain filling stages of plant development. 
 The occurrence of FHB does not automatically mean that 
 DON is present, but a high level of scabby kernels in the 
 harvested g...