Enzymatic degradation is an effective means to reduce aflatoxin contamination in maize.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Aflatoxins are carcinogenic compounds produced by certain species of Aspergillus fungi. The consumption of crops contaminated with this toxin cause serious detrimental health effects, including death, in both livestock and humans. As a consequence, both the detection and quantification of this toxin in food/feed items is tightly regulated with crops exceeding the allowed limits eliminated from food chains. Globally, this toxin causes massive agricultural and economic losses each year.

Results

In this paper we investigate the feasibility of using an aflatoxin-degrading enzyme strategy to reduce/eliminate aflatoxin loads in developing maize kernels. We used an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) targeted sub-cellular compartmentalization stabilizing strategy to accumulate an

SUBMITTER: Schmidt MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8684248 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature