| fungi associated with black tea and tea quality in the sultanate of oman. | forty-eight samples of four popular commercial brands of black tea (camellia sinensis l.) were purchased from the local markets in muscat area, sultanate of oman. tea leaves were surveyed for mycoflora. five fungal species were isolated with a. niger as the most dominant in all the brands having percentage contamination ranging between 0.66% and 30.34%. other fungi isolated were aspergillusflavus, penicillium spp. and pacelomyces spp. but having average percentages of 0.6%, 0.84% and 0.21% respe ... | 1999 | 10598069 |