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Mycotoxins in Cereal Crops
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Mycotoxins in Cereal Crops

A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Grain".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 14398

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Valeria Terzi

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Consiglio Per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e L’analisi Dell’economia Agraria-Centro di Ricerca Genomica e Bioinformatica (CREA-GB), Via San Protaso 302, 29017 Fiorenzuola d’Arda, PC, Italy
Interests: plant genetics; plant genetic resources; quality; molecular traceability; small grain cereals
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Dr. Caterina Morcia

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Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Italy
Interests: DNA-based traceability of plant and microbial species; mycotoxins monitoring; natural antimicrobials

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The journal Foods (ISSN 2304-8158) is currently running a Special Issue entitled " Mycotoxins in Cereal Crops", for which we are serving as Guest Editors.

Cereals are the most important food source worldwide, but their yield can be limited by single and multiple environmental stresses. Among biotic ones, great attention deserve mycotoxigenic fungi, affecting both cereal yield and quality. The mycotoxin contamination of cereals is in fact a whole world problem with negative impact on health safety and economic losses. Reducing mycotoxin contamination in cereal production chain, from field to food and feed, is therefore among priorities. Several different strategies can be activated to this aim, including breeding resistant varieties, adoption of suitable agronomic protocols, monitoring and control of fungal populations, adoption of technological solutions in different steps of cereal production and utilization chain.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect contributions deriving from different and complementary expertise focused on “Mycotoxins in Cereals” and their four “W”: What, When, Where, Why”. It would be an honor to receive contributions ranging from the current knowledge on the cereal diseases caused by mycotoxigenic fungi as well as all aspects of mycotoxins contamination of cereals and derived food and feed, taking into account control strategies in field, decontamination methods, as well as implications for health and economic aspect for cereal production chains.

Dr. Valeria Terzi
Dr. Caterina Morcia
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Mycotoxins
  • Cereals
  • Mycotoxigenic fungi
  • Detection methods
  • Occurrence and co-occurrence from grains to food/feed
  • Mycotoxins and climate change
  • Toxicity and health problems
  • Prevention, control and decontamination strategies from field to food/feed
  • Plant genetic resistance
  • Economics of mycotoxins

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The Influence of Steeping Water Change during Malting on the Multi-Toxin Content in Malt
by Kristina Habschied, Rudolf Krska, Michael Sulyok, Jasmina Lukinac, Marko Jukić, Bojan Šarkanj, Vinko Krstanović and Krešimir Mastanjević
Foods 2019, 8(10), 478; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods8100478 - 11 Oct 2019
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The aim of this study was to assess the impact of steeping water change and Fusarium graminearum contamination level on different multi-toxin types and concentrations in barley malt. Malt samples were subjected to two micromalting regimes—steeping water change and the other with no [...] Read more.
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of steeping water change and Fusarium graminearum contamination level on different multi-toxin types and concentrations in barley malt. Malt samples were subjected to two micromalting regimes—steeping water change and the other with no steeping water change. Malt was contaminated with different F. graminearum contamination levels (0%, 10%, and 20%). The results indicate that malt with higher F. graminearum contamination levels ensured higher concentrations of toxins. Higher fungal metabolite concentrations were determined in samples exposed to freshly-changed steeping water, especially zearalenone and its derivates whose values were three to four times higher than in samples with no water change. Zearalenone-4-sulfate showed four (in 10% contamination) and even thirty times (in 20% contamination) higher concentrations than in samples with no water change. Water change during malting resulted in higher levels of multi-toxins in the final product. Full article
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Mycotoxigenic Fungi and Mycotoxins in Agricultural Crop Commodities in the Philippines: A Review
by Mark Angelo O. Balendres, Petr Karlovsky and Christian Joseph R. Cumagun
Foods 2019, 8(7), 249; https://doi.org/10.3390/foods8070249 - 08 Jul 2019
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The tropical, warm, and humid conditions that are favorable to the growth and development of mycotoxigenic fungi put the Philippines at a high risk of mycotoxin contamination. To date, seven mycotoxigenic Aspergillus species, four Fusarium species, and one Penicillium species have been isolated [...] Read more.
The tropical, warm, and humid conditions that are favorable to the growth and development of mycotoxigenic fungi put the Philippines at a high risk of mycotoxin contamination. To date, seven mycotoxigenic Aspergillus species, four Fusarium species, and one Penicillium species have been isolated from various agricultural crop commodities in the country. There are five mycotoxin groups (aflatoxin, fumonisin, ochratoxin, nivalenol, and zearalenone) that have been detected in both the raw form and the by-products of major crops grown in the country. Since the first scientific report of aflatoxin contamination in the Philippines in 1972, new information has been generated on mycotoxins and mycotoxigenic fungi, but little has been known of other mycotoxins until the last two decades. Further, despite the increase in the understanding of mycotoxigenic fungi and mycotoxins in the country, very limited knowledge exists on practices and measures that control both the fungi and the toxins. This paper reviews the current literature on mycotoxigenic fungi and mycotoxins in the Philippines with emphasis on the last two decades and on other mycotoxins. Full article
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