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.
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