Claim · model-written summary
Penicillium natatum accounted for 5 (22.7%) market isolates from maize and rice.
- Taxon
- rice and maize
Oryza sativa
Zea mayst0 - Interactor
- penicillium natatume2other
- Outcome
- penicillium natatume2
- Value
- 5 (22.7%)e2
- Setting
- markete2
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorDirectionQualifier
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Verbatim
t0“FUNGI ASSOCIATED WITH RICE AND MAIZE SPOILAGE”
e2“The results obtained from the market showed that 8 (36.3%) aspergillus flavus were present in both the maize and rice samples, 1 (4.5%) aspergillus niger, 7 (31.8%) aspergillus fumigatus, 1 (4.5%) rhizopus stolenifer, and 5 (22.7%) penicillium natatum, without the growth of aspergillus oryzae”
Title
Usman, Adam F.; Gadzama, Ibrahim M.K.; Hamman, Amira; et al. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) 2026. doi:10.5281/zenodo.20342827
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Aspergillus flavus was present in 8 (36.3%) market isolates from both maize and rice samples.
- Observation Aspergillus fumigatus accounted for 7 (31.8%) market isolates from maize and rice.
- Observation Aspergillus niger accounted for 1 (4.5%) market isolates from maize and rice.
- Observation Rhizopus stolenifer accounted for 1 (4.5%) market isolates from maize and rice.
- Observation 9 fungi were isolated and identified from the maize market samples.
- Observation 13 fungi were identified from the rice market samples.
- Observation 2 fungi were isolated from maize samples obtained from the farm.
- Observation Ten farm isolates from maize samples were Rhizopus stolenifer.
- Observation Aspergillus niger, A. flavus and A. oryzae were isolated and identified from farm rice samples.
- Association Market grain samples showed a higher frequency of fungal isolates (22) than farm samples (12).