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Agriculture · Q552

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 552

Q552

Which of the following is a vivotoxin?

A.
Cochliobolic acid
B.
Victorin
C.
Fusaric acid
Answer
D.
Alternaric acid

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Fusaric acid is a vivotoxin.
Vivotoxin designates a secondary metabolite produced by the pathogen and/or its host during infection, produces disease symptoms, but is not oneself the initiating causal agent of the infection.
Out of all, Fusaric-acid is the most studied pathogen-produced wilt toxin classified as a non-specific vivotoxin.