Claim · model-written summary
Syncephalastrum accounted for 1.41% of recovered fungi.
- Taxon
- Emblica officinalis
Emblica officinalise1 - Interactor
- Syncephalastrum
Syncephalastrume0pathogen - Outcome
- Syncephalastrume0
- Value
- 1.41%e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Syncephalastrum(1.41%)”
e1“fruit samples of Emblica officinalis, Terminalia bellirica and Terminalia chebula”
Title
Fungal Contamination Of few Common Stored herbal Fruit Samples
The Internet Journal of Nutrition and Wellness 2009. doi:10.5580/638
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Most stored herbal fruit samples were contaminated with fungi.
- Observation Twelve fungal species were isolated from fruit samples of the three plants.
- Observation Five fungal genera made up the predominant mycoflora of the stored fruits.
- Observation Aspergillus was the most dominant genus recovered from stored fruits.
- Observation Penicillium accounted for 15.44% of recovered fungi.
- Observation Rhizopus accounted for 9.51% of recovered fungi.
- Observation Alternaria accounted for 1.67% of recovered fungi.
- Mechanism The authors infer that storage fungi probably infect crude herbal drugs during harvesting and subsequent processing.