Background: The role of fungi in cocoa crops is mainly associated with plant diseases and
contamination of harvest with unwanted metabolites such as mycotoxins that can reach the …

Phytopathogenic and/or mycotoxigenic filamentous fungi are involved in a great number of
plant diseases that cause yield and quality losses of crops. Besides the economic damages …

The present study reports on the natural mycobiota occurring in cocoa beans, paying special
attention to the incidence of fungal species that are potential producers of mycotoxins. The …

Risk assessment is a formal process of identifying hazards and assessing the risk
associated with them (risk is a combination of the severity of illness and the probability of …

In this work, we determined the degree of filamentous fungi contamination in cocoa
fermented seeds and the fungal potential to produce enzymes that could contribute to the …

Samples of maize, rice, cocoa and cocoa-based powder beverage) collected from different
stores and markets in south-western Nigeria were screened for filamentous fungi …

This study aimed to examine fungi diversity in dried beef meat sold in Ekiti State,
characterize the isolated fungi, and determine the aflatoxin-producing ability of the …

The threat of aflatoxin contamination in food commodities and its association with health
risks in both animals and humans continues to raise increasing concern over years. In this …

Ten fungal isolates were cultured from 40 samples of powdered cocoa by plating on Potato
Dextrose Agar and incubation at 25oC for 7 days. They were subjected to macro-and micro …

A total of sixty-four (64) samples consisting of cocoa (processed and non-processed) and
cocoa based powder beverages were collected from fields, stores and markets in different …