Trichodiene is a precursor to trichothecenes
Abstract
Trichodiene was rigorously proven to be a biosynthetic precursor to the major trichothecenes in Fusarium culmorum: 3-acetyldeoxynivalenol and sambucinol; bazzanene, an unnatural diastereoisomer of trichodiene (with a β-methyl at C-15), was not incorporated into trichothecenes.