Monique Franke, Diplomandin
F. culmorum as a world wide cereal pathogen causes several diseases like FHB und FCR/ foot rot. An important fact of controlling the fungus is due to the production of harmful mycotoxins. The contamination with these secondary metabolites leads to huge economical yield losses. Because of the assumption that F. culmorum could cause FHB and contamination of the grains through a soil borne, systemic infection, we use a GFP-transformed fungal strain to follow the colonization within the host. In addition to the fluorescence microscopy, a quantitative Real Time PCR also used to quantify the biomass of the fungus.