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Mycotoxins, toxic metabolites of molds elaborated during their colonization of foods and feeds, pose a threat to human and animal life. Molds are the diverse group of fungi, which grow in compatatively dry and warm environments, produce copious amount of spores and promote the elaboration of these mycotoxins. Mycotoxigenic fungi, which are unique their sporulating apparatus and exhibit wide variation in their morphology, poses a challenge in their identification. There are numerous examples of their misidentification leading to wrong conclusions. Precise information on taxonomy of these fungi is lacking. Therefore, this book fulfills the need of providing comprehensive information and keys helpful for the accurate identification of these moulds. The book also provides comprehensive account of morphology, mycotoxins produced and factors leading to the elaboration of mycotoxins. Information on their molecular detection, anamorphic and teleomorphic relationships is also included.
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Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1.(i) General Introduction 1.2. (ii) Key to the identification of mycotoxin producing fungi 1.3. (iii) Figures of Mycotoxigenic Fungi Chapter 2 Isolation and detection of mycotoxigenic fungi 2.1. Mycological Examination of Foods 2.2. Sample Preparation 2.3. Methods and Media for Isolation of Xerophilic Fungi 2.4. Taxonomy of Food Spoilage Fungi 2.5. Culture Collections and their Importance in Mycotoxin Research 2.5.1. Methods of Metabolic Activity Maintained Fungal Cultures 2.5.2. Methods of Metabolically Inactive Fungal Cultures 2.6. Importance of Culture Collections for Research on Mycotoxigenic Fungi of Stored Products 2.7. Culture Collection and Developing Countries Chapter 3: Description of Various Mycotoxigenic Fungi 1. Acremonium 2. Alternaria 3. Arthrinium 4. Ascochyta 5. Aspergillus 6. Beauveria 7. Bipolaris 8. Byssochlamys 9. Ceratocystis 10. Chalara 11. Chaetomium 12. Cladosporium 13. Clavariopsis 14. Claviceps 15. Colletotrichum 16. Curvularia 17. Cylindrocarpon 18. Dendrodochium 19. Diaporthe 20. Diplodia 21. Dichotomomyces 22. Drechslera 23. Dematophora 24. Epichloe 25. Epicoccum 26. Fusarium 27. Fusicoccum 28. Gerlachia 29. Gibberella 30. Gliocladium 31. Gloeotinia 32. Hormiscium 33. Hyalodendron 34. Lasiodiplodia 35. Metarrhizium 36. Microdochium 37. Magnaparthe 38. Monographella 39. Myrothecium 40. Nigrospora 41. Paecilomyces 42. Papulaspora 43. Penicillium 44. Periconia 45. Pestalotiopsis 46. Phoma 47. Phomopsis 48. Piricauda 49. Pithomyces 50. Pteroconium 51. Pyricularia 52. Rosellinia 53. Sclerotinia 54. Sepedonium 55. Stachybotrys 56. Sphacilia 57. Talaromyces 58 Thanatephorerus 59. Thielavia 60. Torulopsis 61. Trichoderma 62. Trichotheicum 63. Verticillium 64. Verticimonosporium 65. Zygosporium Chapter 4 Molecular Detection of Mycotoxigenic Fungi and Mycotoxins 4. 1. Introduction 4.2. Biosynthetic Gene Clusters 4.3. Molecular Markers for Fungal Complex Genetic Analyses 4.4. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) in Detection of Mycotoxigenic species 4.5. Single-Strand Conformation Polymorphism (SSCP) 4.6. Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) 4.7. Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) 4.8. Molecular Detection of Different Mycotoxins in Foods and Feeds Chapter 5 Pleomorphism in Mycotoxigenic Fungi 5.1. Pleomorphism with Conidia of the same Ontogenic Type 5.2. Pleomorphism with Conidia of different types 5.3. Pleomorphism of Conidiomata 5.4. Sequence of States 5.5. Pleomorphism and Classification 5.6. Pleomorphism and Nomenclature
Chapter 6 Ecology of Mycotoxigenic Fungi 6.1. Effect of Physical factors 6.2. Effect of Chemical factors 6.3. Influence of Biological factors Glossary List of Mycotoxigenic Species References |
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