Relationship of ergosterol content and fungal contamination and assessment of technological quality of malting barley preserved in a metal silo using the near-ambient method

Journal of Stored Products Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 360-365

  Gawrysiak Witulska, Marzena ^a   Wawrzyniak, Jolanta ^a   Ryniecki, Antoni ^a   Perkowski, Juliusz ^a  

^a POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ergosterol content; Malting barley grain; Microbiological quality; Near ambient drying; Technological quality

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM;

EID: 50649109190     PISSN: 0022474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspr.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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