Transcriptome analyses during fruiting body formation in Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium verticillioides reflect species life history and ecology.

Fusarium graminearum and F. verticillioides are devastating cereal pathogens with very different life history and ecological characteristics. F.

A novel route for immobilization of oligonucleotides onto modified silica nanoparticles.

A novel approach for immobilization of probe oligonucleotides that uses zirconium phosphate modified silica nanoparticles is proposed. The surface modification of nanoparticles was carried out in two stages. Initially binding of Zr4+ to the surface of silica nanoparticles and later treated with phosphoric acid for terminal phosphate groups.