Genetic and toxigenic variability within Aspergillus flavus population isolated from maize in two diverse environments in Kenya

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 9, Issue JAN, 2018, Pages

  Okoth, Sheila ^a   De Boevre, Marthe ^b   Vidal, Arnau ^b   Di Mavungu, José Diana ^b   Landschoot, Sofie ^b   Kyallo, Martina ^c   Njuguna, Joyce ^c   Harvey, Jagger ^d   De Saeger, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c International Livestock Research Institute   (Kenya)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aflatoxin biosynthesis genes; Aspergillus flavus; Calmodulin; ITS; Metabolites, maize; Screening; tubulin gene

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN B1; AFLATOXIN B2; AFLATOXIN G1; AFLATOXIN G2; AFLATREM; AFLAVARIN; AFLAVARIN ANALOG 1; AFLAVARIN ANALOG 2; AFLAVININE; ASPERGILLIC ACID; ASPERTOXIN; BETA TUBULIN; CALMODULIN; DITRYPTOPHENALINE; FLAVACOL; FUNGAL DNA; HYDROXYNEOASPERGILLIC ACID; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; KOJIC ACID; LEPORIN C; MICROBIAL PRODUCTS NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE; NORANTHRONE; PASPALINE; PASPALININE; RIBOSOME DNA; SPERADINE A; STERIGMATOCYSTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERSICONOL; VERSICONOL HEM ACID; ZEARALANONE;

AFLD GENE; AFLP GENE; AFLQ GENE; AFLR GENE; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS MINISCLEROTIGENES; ASPERGILLUS PARASITICUS; CLADISTICS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; INDEL MUTATION; KENYA; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAIZE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; REGULATOR GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL GENE; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85041234895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00057     Document Type: Article

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