Luiz Antonio Moura Keller

1. Introduction Members of the Aspergillus spp., among many other toxigenic fungi, have been found to have a strong ecological link with human food supplies [1]. They are often associated with food and animal feed during drying and storage but may also occur as plant pathogens. Black aspergilli, Aspergillus classified into the section Nigri [2], have been isolated from a wide variety of food ...

IntroductionMycotoxins are toxic substances produced by some fungi that are widely present in feedstuffs. They are responsible for considerable losses and adverse effects on animal health and production (Hauschild et al., 2007). Zearalenone (ZEA) is a non-steroidal estrogenic mycotoxin (Andretta et al., 2008; Andretta et al., 2010) produced mainly by Fusarium graminearum and Fusarium culmorum ...

Originally published in the Journal of Applied MicrobiologyIntroductionSilage consists in green forage preserved by spontaneous lactic fermentation under anaerobic conditions (Miller 2001). The primary purpose of making silage is to maximize the preservation of original nutrients in the forage crop with minimum losses in the nutritional quality that allows its use as fodder during periods of feed ...