Claim · model-written summary
Penicillium (9 isolates) dominated the isolates.
- Taxon
- tomato, capsicum, grape, strawberry, zucchini, lemon, apple, pear, and bananae2
- Interactor
- Penicillium
Penicilliume3pathogen - Outcome
- dominatede3
- Value
- 9 isolatese3
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionQualifier
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Verbatim
e2“A total of 78 symptomatic and asymptomatic samples of tomato, capsicum, grape, strawberry, zucchini, lemon, apple, pear, and banana were collected from an international produce market”
e3“Penicillium (9 isolates), Aspergillus (5), Fusarium (4), and Talaromyces (4) dominated”
Title
Ratiba Al-Maaini; Rethinasamy Velazhahan; Hamed H. Al-Nadabi; et al. Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences 2026. doi:10.1007/s44447-026-00159-3
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation Mucor irregularis infected intact zucchini tissue.
- Observation Fusarium inflexum infected intact banana tissue.
- Intervention effect Penicillium expansum required wounds to infect apple.
- Intervention effect Talaromyces aculeatus and Fusarium falciforme required wounds to infect lemon.
- Observation On tomato, Penicillium oxalicum produced the largest lesions regardless of wounding.
- Intervention effect A wounding effect was detected on grape for isolate GL88.
- Observation Twenty-seven isolates were resolved into 19 species across nine genera.
- Observation Aspergillus (5 isolates) dominated the isolates.
- Observation Fusarium (4 isolates) dominated the isolates.
- Observation Talaromyces (4 isolates) dominated the isolates.
- Recommendation Effective biosecurity measures and careful handling are critical to limit transboundary risks of postharvest fungal decay.
- Observation Fruits and vegetables act as vehicles for fungal pathogens that cross borders.