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Determination of Host-Selective Toxins

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Plant Toxin Analysis

Part of the book series: Modern Methods of Plant Analysis ((MOLMETHPLANT,volume 13))

Abstract

Since Hutchinson’s first toxigenic hypothesis of fungal plant disease, proposed in 1913, there have been many reports of phytotoxins isolated from culture filtrates of pathogens. Some toxins could be related to symptom development, and others were found to have no positive relation to the pathogenicity of the producing fungus. Over many years, the evaluation of toxin in pathogenes is fluctuated from optimistic excitement to disappointment. The concept of host-specific or host-selective toxins (HST) launched in 1964 by Pringle and Scheffer became a historical turning point, and subsequent toxin studies in plant pathology developed accordingly. Many discoveries, suggestions and prospects concerning the development of the HST concept have been reviewed (Scheffer and Briggs 1981; Nishimura and Kohmoto 1983a,b; Scheffer 1983, 1989; Scheffer and Livingston 1984).

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  2. Department of Viticulture, Enology and Horticulture, Waite Agricultural Research Institute, University of Adelaide, 5064, Glen Osmond, S.A., Australia

    John F. Jackson

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Kohmoto, K. (1992). Determination of Host-Selective Toxins. In: Linskens, H.F., Jackson, J.F. (eds) Plant Toxin Analysis. Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02783-7_3

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