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Twenty-two aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) producing Aspergillus flavus strains were isolated from 1,200 discolored rice grain samples collected from 20 states across India and tested their potential to produce AFB1 on different agar media. Further these isolates were characterized through randomly amplified polymorphic DNA method. All the strains of A. flavus were produced AFB1 on yeast extract sucrose agar media and none of the strains on A. flavus and A. parasiticus agar. Among the 22 strains, two strains from Tamil Nadu (DRAf 009) and Maharashtra (DRAf 015) produced high amount of AFB1 in all the media tested. To assess the genetic variability in A. flavus, the isolates were analyzed by using random amplified polymorphic DNA markers. Isolates showed 17–80% similarity with standard culture of A. flavus (MTCC 2799).
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Reddy, K.R.N., Surendhar Reddy, C., Nataraj Kumar, P. et al. Genetic variability of aflatoxin B1 producing Aspergillus flavus strains isolated from discolored rice grains. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 25, 33–39 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-008-9857-5
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-008-9857-5