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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2019

"Ground-Truthing" Efficacy of Biological Control for Aflatoxin Mitigation in Farmers' Fields in Nigeria: From Field Trials to Commercial Usage, a 10-Year Study.

Ranajit Bandyopadhyay, Joseph Atehnkeng, Alejandro Ortega-Beltran, Adebowale Akande, Titilayo D O Falade, Peter J Cotty

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ranajit BandyopadhyayInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Joseph AtehnkengInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Alejandro Ortega-BeltranInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Adebowale AkandeInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Abuja, Nigeria.
Titilayo D O FaladeInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria.
Peter J CottyAgricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Tucson, AZ, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), diverse fungi belonging to

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PMID31824438
PMCPMC6882503

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