Modelling the effect of temperature and water activity on the growth of two ochratoxigenic strains of Aspergillus carbonarius from Greek wine grapes

Journal of Applied Microbiology

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2267-2276

  Tassou, C C ^a   Panagou, E Z ^b   Natskoulis, P ^a   Magan, N ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspergillus carbonarius; Fungal growth; Predictive modelling; Temperature; Water activity; Wine grapes

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS; FRUIT JUICES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; RISK ASSESSMENT; WINE;

ASPERGILLUS CARBONARIUS; COMBINED EFFECT; DESCRIPTIVE MODEL; EFFECT OF WATER; EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE; FUNGAL GROWTH; OCHRATOXIN A; PREDICTIVE MODELS; WATER ACTIVITY; WINE GRAPES;

TEMPERATURE;

OCHRATOXIN;

DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRUIT; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS CARBONARIUS; COLONY FORMATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS GROWTH; GRAPE; GRAPE JUICE; GREECE; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VINICULTURE;

ASPERGILLUS CARBONARIUS; VITACEAE; VITIS VINIFERA;

EID: 36549068280     PISSN: 13645072     EISSN: 13652672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2007.03480.x     Document Type: Article

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