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The authors recommend continuous monitoring of fungal dominance.
- Outcome
- Continuous monitoringe0
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Verbatim
e0“Continuous monitoring is therefore needed to anticipate shifts in fungal dominance and assure food safety and crop production”
t0“maize”
Title
Alexandre Vicens-Sans; Sonia Marín; Antonio J. Ramos; et al. International Journal of Food Microbiology 2026. doi:10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2026.111708
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Fusarium and Aspergillus each infected about 40% of kernels in 2023.
- Association Aspergillus incidence fell below 5% in 2024.
- Observation Fusarium remained dominant in 2024.
- Observation Epicoccum incidence increased by 15.3%.
- Observation Phoma incidence increased by 6.2%.
- Observation Fusarium proliferatum was more frequent than F. verticillioides.
- Observation Aspergillus sections Flavi and Nigri had similar incidence.
- Observation Aspergillus flavus/oryzae was the main Aspergillus species.
- Association Popcorn was more susceptible to Aspergillus than other maize types.