Impact of Climate Change on Fungal Population and Mycotoxins
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Mycotoxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 2128
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mycotoxin risk assessmen; feed and food safety; toxicology; animal nutrition; feed contaminants
2. Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
3. Austrian Competence Centre for Feed and Food Quality, Safety & Innovation (FFoQSI GmbH), Tulln, Austria
Interests: analytical determination of mycotoxins and analytes in feeds; foods and biological matrices; food toxicology; bioanalytics; global food security
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In a world with an ever-growing population, climate change threatens the food supply from several fronts. The climate is crucial in driving the structures of the fungal community and the mycotoxin contamination levels pre- and post-harvest. Long-term shifts in the temperature and the increased frequency of extreme weather events can impact plant–fungi (symbiotic or parasitic) interactions, with the possibility of higher levels and/or uncommon patterns of co-occurring mycotoxins. It is essential to explore the effects of geo-climatic patterns (such as geographic location, temperature, humidity, and rainfall, among others) on the occurrence of mycotoxins and other secondary fungal metabolites in feeds and foods along supply chains.
This Special Issue intends to support the divulgation of studies exploring the role of climate change and its related parameters in fungi growth, proliferation, and toxicogenesis in crops, as well as the feeds and foods produced thereof.
We invite our colleagues exploring this field to share their valuable investigations on toxins and contribute new data on this scarcely explored, but highly relevant, area.
Dr. Felipe Penagos-Tabares
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Krska
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mycotoxins
- climate change
- temperature
- humidity
- rainfall
- fungal biology
- fungal community
- toxigenic fungi
- drought stress
