Separation and Identification of Two Fungal Strains in Stored Maize
- 1 University of Massachusetts, United States
- 2 Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economy, China
Abstract
The microbiological spoilage of stored grain is important for human health and economic loss. Two major predominant grain spoilage fungi (M15 and M16) were isolated from maize from a granary in China. Morphological observation of the fungal isolates, analysis of their ITS sequences and construction of their phylogenetic trees were conducted on these two strains, which were identified as Fusarium solani (M15) and Aspergillus sclerotiorum (M16). This method was shown to be a feasible, accurate and convenient way to identify fungi in stored grain.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajbbsp.2017.132.139
Copyright: © 2017 Xiaoyu Yue, Lynne McLandsborough, Jian Zou and Xueqin Gao. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Maize
- Morphological Characteristics
- Analysis of ITS Sequence
- Phylogenetic Tree