Project

Development of molecular identification and detection techniques for patuline producing moulds in order to study the impact of storage conditions of apples on the expression of patuline producing genes

Code

35IG3408

Duration

01 October 2008 → 31 March 2012

Funding

Federal funding: various

Promotor

Bruno De Meulenaer

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Genetics
- Microbiology
- Systems biology
Medical and health sciences
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Molecular and cell biology
- Laboratory medicine
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Molecular and cell biology
Agricultural and food sciences
- Food sciences and (bio)technology

Keywords

apples genes patulin

Project description

A molecular technique to detect moulds, processing the genes for the synthesis of patulin, will be developped. Furthermore, the expression of one or several genes will be monitored in order to correlate them with the real patulin production and mould growth on apples as function of the several storage conditions of the apples.