Toxigenic fungi and mycotoxins entered human food supplies about the time when mankind
first began to cultivate crops and to store them from one season to the next, perhaps 10,000 …

Aflatoxins and the producing fungi Aspergillus section Flavi are widely known as the most
serious and dangerous mycotoxin issue in agricultural products. In Europe, before the …

Aflatoxin contamination of groundnut and maize infected by Aspergillus section Flavi fungi is
common throughout Senegal. The use of biocontrol products containing atoxigenic …

The black yeast Aureobasidium pullulans is a textbook example of a generalistic and
ubiquitous fungus thriving in a wide variety of environments. To investigate whether A …

Apples are affected by numerous fungi known as storage rots, which cause significant
losses before and after harvest. Concerns about increasing antimicrobial resistance, bans …

At the interface between agriculture and nutrition, the aflatoxin contamination of food and
feed touches on agriculture, health, and trade. For more than three decades now, the …

Cyclopiazonic acid (α-cyclopiazonic acid, α-CPA) is an indole-hydrindane-tetramic acid
neurotoxin produced by various fungal species, including the notorious food and feed …

Aflatoxins (AFs) are secondary metabolites that represent serious threats to human and
animal health. They are mainly produced by strains of the saprophytic fungus Aspergillus …

Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important crop in Malawi and Zambia. The crop is
valued for soil improvement in cereal-based cropping systems, for improving the livelihoods …

Several strains of a new aflatoxigenic species of Aspergillus, A. korhogoensis, were isolated
in the course of a screening study involving species from section Flavi found contaminating …