Fungi associated with black tea and tea quality in the Sultanate of Oman

Mycopathologia

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-93

  Elshafie, Abdulkadir E ^a   Al Lawatia, Taghreid ^a   Al Bahry, Saif ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Aflatoxins; Aspergillus niger; Black tea; Mycoflora

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOOD INDUSTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OMAN; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM; STANDARD; TEA; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AFLATOXINS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CHROMATOGRAPHY, THIN LAYER; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; OMAN; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TEA;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; FUNGI; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM;

EID: 0032756797     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007034729467     Document Type: Article

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