Post-harvest storage of corn: Effect of beginning moisture content on mycoflora and fumonisin contamination

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1081-1090

  Ono, E Y S ^a   Sasaki, E Y ^a   Hashimoto, E H ^a   Hara, L N ^a   Correa B ^b   Itano, E N ^a   Sugiura, T ^c   Ueno, Y ^d   Hirooka, E Y ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d Yashio Institute of Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corn; Fumonisins; Fusarium spp.; Total count

Indexed keywords

FUMONISIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CLADOSPORIUM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORN; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD STORAGE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUSARIUM; HARVESTING; MOISTURE; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS; BRAZIL; CLADOSPORIUM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOOD HANDLING; FUMONISINS; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; PENICILLIUM; ZEA MAYS;

ASPERGILLUS; CLADOSPORIUM; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; PENICILLIUM; PHOMA; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036850313     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030210146828     Document Type: Article

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