**Meet the editor**

Tulin Askun is a professor of Biology and Molecular Biology at the Department of Biology, Balikesir University, and the head of the Department of Molecular Biology in Balikesir, Turkey. She obtained her undergraduate degree in 1981 from the Ege Universitesi, Izmir, Turkey; master's degree in Scientific Research in 1997, with the thesis entitled "Macrofungi of Balya (Balıkesir) County";

and PhD degree in 2002 from the Balikesir University, with the thesis entitled "Isolation and Identification of Potential Ochratoxigenic Moulds from Raisins and Investigation of Time-Dependent Change of Oratratoxin-A Formation in Some Ochratoxigenic Species."

Before she was appointed as a full-time professor at the Balikesir University in 2014, she spent 5 years as an associated professor in the same university. Her research interests are fungal diversity, fungal identification, mycotoxins and fungal infections. She also has an interest in secondary metabolites, antifungal activity and fungal enzymes.

She is a member of several professional organisations and working groups acting as the project leader in more than 20 funded research projects (funds from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [TÜBİTAK]; Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology; and Balikesir Universitesi scientific research projects). She has published many scientific papers, book chapters, and conference papers (http://www.balikesir.edu. tr/bau\_yonetim/yukleme/birim/5/CV-Tulin%20Askun-ING.pdf).

Contents

**Preface VII**

Tulin Askun

Mohammad Babadoost

**Antiphytophthora 65** Sukrasno Sukrasno

**Production 23**

Feregrino-Perez

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Fusarium - Pathogenicity, Infections, Diseases, Mycotoxins and Management 1**

Chapter 3 **Fusarium Mycotoxins and Metabolites that Modulate Their**

Chapter 4 **The Incidence of T-2 and HT-2 Toxins in Cereals and Methods of their Reduction Practice by the Food Industry 41** Jelka Pleadin, Ana Vulić, Jurislav Babić and Drago Šubarić

Sandra N. Jimenez-Garcia, Lina Garcia-Mier, Juan F. Garcia-Trejo, Xóchitl S. Ramirez-Gomez, Ramon G. Guevara-Gonzalez and Ana A.

Chapter 2 **Fusarium: Historical and Continued Importance 13**

Chapter 5 **Plant Secondary Metabolites for Antifusarium and**

Maldonado and Susana González-Morales

Chapter 6 **A Molecular Vision of the Interaction of Tomato Plants and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici 79**

> Ema Laura García-Enciso, Adalberto Benavides-Mendoza, María Liliana Flores-López, Armando Robledo-Olivo, Antonio Juárez-
