Postharvest incidence of aflatoxins in  Linum usitatissimum  seeds | Zendy

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Postharvest incidence of aflatoxins in Linum usitatissimum seeds

Author(s) -

Sahay S S,

Prasad T,

Sinha K K

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

journal of the science of food and agriculture

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782

H-Index - 142

eISSN - 1097-0010

pISSN - 0022-5142

DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740530204

Subject(s) - linum , aflatoxin , biology , aspergillus flavus , postharvest , aspergillus , contamination , horticulture , botany , food science , ecology

Linseed (Linum usitatissimum L), collected from kothi and gunny bag, had a total of 18 fungal species. Aspergillus spp were the more frequent and accounted for more than 40 % of the total count. The gunny bag storage system exhibited higher dominance of A flavus than occurred in the kothi system. Out of 251 isolates screened, 44 % were toxigenic and produced different components of alfatoxins in the range 105–3000 μg litre −1 . Of 105 samples extracted for the natural presence of alfatoxin, 46 had aflatoxin contamination. The concentration of alfatoxin B 1 in contaminated samples ranged from 120 to 810 μg kg −1 .

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