Claim · model-written summary
Co-culturing Aspergillus flavus with Trichoderma harzianum significantly decreased aflatoxin levels, a relative reduction of 99.3% compared with aflatoxigenic treatments alone.
- Treatment
- Co-culturing of A. flavus with T. harzianume0
- Interactor
- A. flavus
Aspergillus flavuse0pathogen - Second interactor
- T. harzianum
Trichoderma harzianume0biocontrol_agent - Outcome
- AFT levelse0
- Direction
- decreasee0
- Value
- 99.3%e0
- Comparator
- aflatoxigenic treatments alonee0
Zea maysNot reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSettingQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Zea mays”
e0“Co-culturing of A. flavus with T. harzianum resulted in a significant decrease in AFT levels, achieving a relative reduction of 99.3% compared to aflatoxigenic treatments alone”
Title
Aisha Khalid; Shazia Iram; Irum Asif; et al. Stresses 2026. doi:10.3390/stresses6020034
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Intervention effect T. harzianum reduced the aflatoxin level produced by A. flavus alone from 5120 ± 560 µg/kg to 50.1 ± 1.10 µg/kg.
- Intervention effect T. asperellum reduced the aflatoxin level produced by A. flavus alone from 5120 ± 560 µg/kg to 63.1 ± 3.1 µg/kg.
- Intervention effect Aspergillus flavus negatively affected maize germination and early growth.
- Intervention effect Trichoderma harzianum significantly enhanced maize germination and early growth.