Use of selected essential oils to control aflatoxin contaminated stored cashew and detection of aflatoxin biosynthesis gene

Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Abd El Aziz, Abeer R M ^a   Mahmoud, Mohamed A ^b   Al Othman, Monira R ^a   Al Gahtani, Munirah F ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Agricultural Research Center   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; AFLR PROTEIN; CINNAMON OIL; ESSENTIAL OIL; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GARLIC OIL; MINT OIL; NOR 1 PROTEIN; OMT 1 PROTEIN; ROSEMARY OIL; THYME OIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE OIL; VER 1 PROTEIN; ALLYL COMPOUND; ALLYL SULFIDE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CINNAMON OIL, BARK; PRIMER DNA; SULFIDE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CASHEW NUT; CINNAMON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRY WEIGHT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GARLIC; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEDICINAL PLANT; MINT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROSEMARY; THYME; ANACARDIUM; ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASPERGILLUS; CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENETICS; MENTHA; MICROBIOLOGY; NUT; PLANT GENE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THYMUS (PLANT);

ALLIUM SATIVUM; ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; CINNAMOMUM VERUM; MENTHA; ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS; THYMUS VULGARIS;

AFLATOXINS; ALLYL COMPOUNDS; ANACARDIUM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DNA PRIMERS; FLUORESCENCE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GENES, PLANT; MENTHA; NUTS; OILS, VOLATILE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SULFIDES; THYMUS PLANT;

EID: 84922344400     PISSN: 23566140     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/958192     Document Type: Article

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