*2.7. Statistical Analysis*

The Pearson correlation coe fficient was used to detect relations between di fferent mycotoxins, between mycotoxins and fungal DNA, and between di fferent *Fusarium* spp. at a significance level of *p* = 0.05. For calculation of the correlation coe fficients, four outliers were discarded in the *F. verticillioides* DNA data and one in the *F. graminearum* DNA data. All statistical analyses were conducted using the R software package (R Core Team, Vienna, Austria) version 3.4.3 [80].
