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ArticleToxins2022

Relationship between the Fungal Incidence, Water Activity, Humidity, and Aflatoxin Content in Maize Samples from the Highlands and Coast of Ecuador.

Héctor Abel Palacios, Andrieli Stefanello, Margarita Susana García Gavilánez, Dicke Alejandro Castro Demera, Marcelo Valle Garcia, Wilson Arturo Vásquez Castillo, Marcelo Alejandro Almeida Marcano, Iván Rodrigo Samaniego Maigua, Marina Venturini Copetti

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Article in Toxins, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Héctor Abel PalaciosFacultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Ciencias de la Producción, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, Guayaquil 09-01.5863, Ecuador.
Andrieli StefanelloGraduate Program of Food Science and Technology (PPGCTA), Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, UFSM, Santa Maria 97105-900, RS, Brazil.
Margarita Susana García GavilánezFacultad de Ingeniería Agroindustrial, Universidad de las Américas, UDLA, Quito 170513, Ecuador.
Dicke Alejandro Castro DemeraFacultad de Ingeniería Agroindustrial, Universidad de las Américas, UDLA, Quito 170513, Ecuador.
Marcelo Valle GarciaLatis Scientific, Dartford DA1 4AL, UK.
Wilson Arturo Vásquez CastilloFacultad de Ingeniería Agroindustrial, Universidad de las Américas, UDLA, Quito 170513, Ecuador.
Marcelo Alejandro Almeida MarcanoFacultad de Ingeniería Agroindustrial, Universidad de las Américas, UDLA, Quito 170513, Ecuador.
Iván Rodrigo Samaniego MaiguaInstituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIAP, Cutuglahua 171107, Ecuador.
Marina Venturini CopettiGraduate Program of Food Science and Technology (PPGCTA), Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, UFSM, Santa Maria 97105-900, RS, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-1419-9159
Universidad de Las Américas · ECUniversidade Federal de Santa Maria · BREscuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral · ECInstituto Nacional de Investigaciones Agropecuarias · EC

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study evaluated the fungal incidence through direct plating in Agar Dichloran Glycerol, and the presence of aflatoxins in maize samples from the Highlands and Coast of Ecuador by HPLC, investigating the influence of the temperature, altitude, water activity, and humidity of the collection regions on the maize samples' contamination using Principal Components Analysis (PCA). The overall kernel infection by fungi was usually lower in samples from the Highlands, and no aflatoxins or

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AflatoxinsAspergillusAspergillus flavusEcuadorFood ContaminationHumidityIncidenceWaterZea maysAflatoxinsWateraflatoxinsAspergillus flavusmaizemycotoxins

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PMID35324693
PMCPMC8953395
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