Mycotoxins are well established toxic metabolic entities produced when fungi invade
agricultural/farm produce, and this happens especially when the conditions are favourable …

The fumonisins producing fungi, Fusarium spp., are ubiquitous in nature and contaminate
several food matrices that pose detrimental health hazards on humans as well as on …

Mycotoxins are toxic and carcinogenic metabolites produced by fungi that colonize food
crops. The most agriculturally important mycotoxins known today are aflatoxins, which cause …

The genus Fusarium includes numerous toxigenic species that are pathogenic to plants or
humans, and are able to colonize a wide range of environments on earth. The genus …

Aflatoxins and fumonisins (FB) are mycotoxins contaminating a large fraction of the world's
food, including maize, cereals, groundnuts and tree nuts. The toxins frequently co-occur in …

Major staple foods in Southern Africa are prone to mycotoxin contamination, posing health
risks to consumers and consequent economic losses. Regional climatic zones favor the …

Commonly consumed foods and beverages can contain chemicals with reported
carcinogenic activity in rodent models. Moreover, exposures to some of these substances …

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) microbial pesticides have a 50-year history of safety in agriculture.
Cry proteins are among the active insecticidal ingredients in these pesticides, and genes …

We performed a genome-wide association study of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
(ESCC) by genotyping 1,077 individuals with ESCC and 1,733 control subjects of Chinese …

Growth impairment is a major public health issue for children in Tanzania. The question
remains as to whether dietary mycotoxins play a role in compromising children's growth. We …