background: the effect of curcumin as a natural safe compound with different biological activities was examined on fungal growth and aflatoxin production in aspergillus parasiticus nrrl 2999. methods: the fungus was cultured in presence of serial two-fold concentrations of curcumin (125-2000 µg/ml) in yeast extract sucrose broth for 3 days at 28°c. mycelia dry weight was determined as an index ...

Aflatoxins are a family of toxic, acetate-derived decaketides that arise biosynthetically through polyhydroxyanthraquinone intermediates. Most studies have assumed that aflatoxin B1 is the biosynthetic precursor of the other aflatoxins. We used a strain of Aspergillus flavus which accumulates aflatoxin B2 to investigate the later stages of aflatoxin biosynthesis. This strain produced aflatoxins...

This review considers the available information on the potential impact of key environmental factors and their interactions on the molecular ecology, growth and aflatoxin production by Aspergillus flavus in vitro and in maize grain. The recent studies which have been carried out to examine the impact of water activity × temperature on aflatoxin biosynthesis and phenotypic aflatoxin production a...