Inhibition of mycotoxin deoxynivalenol generation by using selenized glucose

Abstract Selenized glucose can be easily prepared via the selenization reaction of glucose using in situ generated NaHSe as the selenization reagent. The technique has been industrialized to produce the chemical in kilogram scale, making it an easily available material in laboratory presently. The selenized glucose may be widely used as the starting material for the preparation of selenium-containing catalysts, as the organoselenium additive for feeds, and as the efficient selenium-enriched foliar fertilizers. In this work, we found that treating Fusarium graminearum, a fungal pathogen inciting wheat scab disease, with selenium glucose could significantly inhibit the generation of the deoxynivalenol (DON) toxin, which might be a breakthrough for reducing the detriment of the wheat scab disease.