| evaluation of mycotoxins, mycobiota, and toxigenic fungi in selected medicinal plants of khyber pakhtunkhwa, pakistan. | medicinal plants are used worldwide to treat a variety of ailments. due to the provenance of medicinal plants, they are subjected to contamination by moulds, which may be responsible for spoilage and production of mycotoxins. the investigation was designed to throw light on mycological and mycotoxicological status of some medicinal plants from pakistan and the result showed 30 % and 26.7 % samples were contaminated with aflatoxins and ochratoxin a, respectively. mould contamination was present i ... | 2014 | 25209636 |
| mould incidence and mycotoxin contamination in maize kernels from swat valley, north west frontier province of pakistan. | mould incidence and aflatoxin b1 (afb1) and ochratoxin a (ota) contamination as well as proximate composition and minerals content of maize kernels from swat valley, north west frontier province of pakistan was studied during the year, 2007. results indicated that the mean moisture content of the kernels was within the recommended safe storage levels of 15%. across the whole valley, aspergillus, fusarium, penicillium and rhizopus were the most predominant fungal genera identified and amongst the ... | 2010 | 20138951 |