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Recombination and lineage-specific gene loss in the aflatoxin gene cluster of Aspergillus flavus.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2009
Moore Geromy G, Singh Rakhi, Horn Bruce W, Carbone Ignazio
Abstract excerpt
Aflatoxins produced by Aspergillus flavus are potent carcinogens that contaminate agricultural crops. Recent efforts to reduce aflatoxin concentrations in crops have focused on biological control using nonaflatoxigenic A. flavus strains AF36 (=NRRL 18543) and NRRL 21882 (the active component of afla-guard. However, the evolutionary potential of these strains to remain nonaflatoxigenic in nature is unknown. To...
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