Unveiling the effect of interacting forecasted abiotic factors on growth and aflatoxin B production kinetics by Aspergillus flavus.

The aim was to decipher the temporal impact of key interacting climate change (CC) abiotic factors of temperature (30 vs 37 °C), water activity (a; 0.985 vs 0.930) and CO exposure (400 vs 1000 ppm) on (a) growth of Aspergillus flavus and effects on (b) gene expression of a structural (aflD) and key regulatory gene (aflR) involved in aflatoxin B (AFB) biosynthesis and (c) AFB production on a yeast extract sucrose medium over a period of 10 days.

Interacting Environmental Stress Factors Affects Targeted Metabolomic Profiles in Stored Natural Wheat and That Inoculated with F. graminearum.

Changes in environmental stress impact on secondary metabolite (SM) production profiles. Few studies have examined targeted SM production patterns in relation to interacting environmental conditions in stored cereals. The objectives were to examine the effect of water activity (a; 0.