McMillian, W.W. and Wilson, D.M. and Mirocha, C.J. and Widstrom , N.W. (1983) Mycotoxin contamination in grain sorghum from fields in Georgia and Mississippi. Cereal Chemistry, 60 (3). pp. 226-227.
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Abstract
Examination of samples of preharvest grain from 64 grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) fields in the Georgia coastal plain in 1980 and 1981 demonstrated a 56% incidence of aflatoxin contamination at 1-90 p.p.b.; 31% of the samples were contaminated with zearalenone at 2-1468 p.p.b. In a 1981 survey of 15 fields in the Mississippi Delta, no detectable levels of aflatoxin or zearalenone were found. Data suggest that the problem of mycotoxins in preharvest grain sorghum may not be so severe as for preharvest maize produced in the S.E. The relatively high incidence of field contamination, however, may result in elevated mycotoxin levels during storage
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Southern Grains Insects Research Laboratory, ARS, USDA, Tifton, Ga. 31793, USA |
| Subjects: | Crop Improvement |
| Divisions: | Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2012 06:33 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2012 06:33 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/4513 |
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