The first mycotoxicological investigation of white mustard (Sinapis alba L.)

Crops widely represented on cultivated lands and often found in natural botanical formations have attracted increasing attention of researchers in recent years. This is due not only to their economic importance, but also to the high value of both experimental facilities that allow studying the features of the formation of the diversity of biocenotic connections and ecological equilibria. According to modern concepts, a complex of secondary substances in plants is increasingly seen as a joint product of their associations with microorganism communities, mainly microscopic fungi (S. Kusari et al., 2012). Recently, Russian researchers performed the first cycle of studies aimed at a comparative study of the content of mycotoxins in cereals and legumes in industrial crops and in the natural habitat (G.P. Kononenko et al., 2015; A.A. Burkin et al., 2017). In the present work, we obtained first information about the nature of the contamination of cruciferous plants with toxic metabolites of microscopic fungi, revealed for the first time differences in their localization in vegetative and generative organs, as well as changes accompanying the full development cycle...