Browsing by Subject "aflatoxin"
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(2012-07-16)Maize production is limited agronomically by the availability of water and nutrients during the growing season. Of these two limiting factors, water availability is predicted to increase in importance as climate change ...
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(2014-08-06)Clays have been used for centuries as ‘ancient medicine’ for their therapeutic benefits. One particular clay, calcium montmorillonite, has historically been used as an anti-caking agent in animal feeds, but has also ...
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(2011-05-10)Aflatoxins are toxic metabolites produced by Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus fungi. Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is the most toxic and is a potent carcinogen with antinutritional and immunosuppressive effects. Several natural ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1994)
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(2014-11-17)The objectives of this research were to evaluate common biological measures of aflatoxicosis in broilers (such as growth rate and relative organ weights) along with variables such as hepatic gene expression and aflatoxin ...
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(2014-04-09)Atoxigenics and crop insurance are available to producers to assist in preventing economic loss from aflatoxin contamination in corn. Atoxigenics are a newer technology available to farmers, and although professional opinion ...
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(2015-12-01)Aflatoxins are toxic secondary fungal metabolites that are present in a variety of crops. Numerous animal experiments have demonstrated the effectiveness of smectite clay in adsorbing aflatoxin and in reducing the toxicity ...
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(2016-10-27)Aflatoxins are the secondary toxic metabolites produced by fungi Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus. They are the most studied mycotoxins because of their carcinogenicity. Corn is the major biofuel crop used ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Maize (Zea mays L.) is grown in a wide range of environments and altitudes worldwide. Maize has transitioned from open pollinated varieties to single cross hybrids over the last century. While maize production and genetic ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)One major problem facing maize producers in the southern US is contamination with the mycotoxin aflatoxin, produced by Aspergillus flavus (Link:fr). Aflatoxin is a serious threat to human and animal health, with no ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1994)
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(2017-12-11)Aflatoxins, produced by the fungus Aspergillus flavus, often contaminate preharvest maize (Zea mays L.) grain under heat and drought stresses, and pose serious health hazards to humans and livestock. Since 2003, a ...
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(2012-11-01)Aflatoxin is a potent biological toxin produced by fungi Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus. Current quantification methods for aflatoxins are mostly established on immunoaffinity columns which are both costly and labor ...
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(2012-10-19)Aflatoxin contamination accounts for millions of dollars worth of losses for corn and cotton in Texas. Two atoxigenic strains of Aspergillus flavus, AF36 and Afla-Guard, are labeled for its management. The purpose of ...
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(2012-12-12)Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the main crops grown in the United States. Genetic improvement over the last century has seen a shift from using open-pollinated varieties to single cross hybrids. This has resulted in major ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)Quality Protein Maize (QPM) with the mutant gene opaque-2 (o2), has higher lysine and tryptophan content and hard endosperm which is less susceptible to mechanical and biological damage. Three experiments were conducted ...
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(2009-06-02)Exotic germplasm has potential to provide new alleles for disease and insect resistance. US maize (Zea mays L.) currently lacks genetic resistance to Aspergillus flavus, a fungal pathogen that produces aflatoxin in maize ...
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(1998)Three species of the genus Aspergillus (A.) A. nidulans, A. parasiticus, and A. flavus are currently being observed in our lab to determine the effects of seed metabolites on fungal development. A. nidulans reproduces ...
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1988)
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(2014-07-31)It is generally accepted, that the reciprocal exchange of molecules between plants and fungi govern the outcome of their interaction. From a multitude of potential signals, one class of oxidized lipids (oxylipins) has taken ...