Impacts of Climate Change Interacting Abiotic Factors on Growth, aflD and aflR Gene Expression and Aflatoxin B₁ Production by Aspergillus flavus Strains In Vitro and on Pistachio Nuts.

ABSTRACT: Pistachio nuts are an important economic tree nut crop which is used directly or processed for many food-related activities. They can become colonized by mycotoxigenic spoilage fungi, especially Aspergillus flavus, mainly resulting in contamination with aflatoxins (AFs), especially aflatoxin B₁ (AFB₁). The prevailing climate in which these crops are grown changes as temperature and atmospheric CO₂ levels increase, and episodes of extreme wet/dry cycles occur due to human industrial activity. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effect of interacting Climate Change (CC)-related abiotic factors of temperature (35 vs. 37 °C), CO₂ (400 vs. 1000 ppm), and water stress (0.98-0.93 water activity, a_w) on (a) growth (b) a

SUBMITTER: Baazeem A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8228473 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature