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Aflatoxin‐negative cottonseeds in bright, greenish yellow fluorescent seed locks
Author(s) -
Lee Louise S.,
Cucullu Alva F.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02667276
Subject(s) - aflatoxin , lint , fluorescence , food science , chemistry , biology , agronomy , physics , quantum mechanics
Bright, greenish yellow (BGY) fluorescent locks were removed from an aflatoxin‐contaminated sample of lint cotton. Hand ginning of these fluorescent locks yielded 51 seeds, 26 with BGY linters, and 25 with nonfluorescent linters. All seeds were analyzed individually for aflatoxins. Two of the seeds with BGY lint accounted for 99.9% (2.75 μg) of the total aflatoxins. Four other seeds each contained 0.02 μg of total toxins, and all others contained no toxins. Our results show that 88% of the seeds necessarily lost in discarded fluorescent locks would contain no aflatoxins.