Produced by several species of Aspergillus, Aflatoxin B₁ (AFB₁) is a carcinogenic mycotoxin contaminating many crops worldwide. The utilization of fungicides is currently one of the most common methods; nevertheless, their use is not environmentally or economically sound. Thus, the use of natural compounds able to block aflatoxinogenesis could represent an alternative strategy to limit food and...

The Covid-19 pandemic allowed a paradigm shift to all destinations in the world, where tourism system took advantage of face-to-face gap educational institutions or centers, integrating virtual learning teaching environments (VEA) for training agroecological. This article seeks disseminate management indicators agroecological from Moodle platform, turn qualitative investigation was carried out ...

Con el paso del tiempo se ha analizado la importancia de participación ciudadana en vida pública, debido a que ejercicio poder va dirigido satisfacer las necesidades y los ciudadanos. Por ello, presente trabajo realiza un análisis misma su impacto nueva gestión pública como factor determinante para nuevos modelos gobernanza gobernabilidad. Para lo anterior, establecen algunas conceptualizacione...

Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, U.K. Abstract The optimal shape of cover plates for circular, symmetric retractable roof structures based on a grid of multi-angulated rods connected by revolute joints is considered. It is assumed that these cover plates are co-planar, and hence they are not allowed to overlap in any configuration; they a...

Aspergillus spp. are frequently occurring seed-colonizing fungi that complete their disease cycles through the development of asexual spores, which function as inocula, and through the formation of cleistothecia and sclerotia. We found that development of all three of these structures in Aspergillus nidulans, Aspergillus flavus, and Aspergillus parasiticus is affected by linoleic acid and light...

Of all the food-contaminating mycotoxins, aflatoxins, and most notably aflatoxin B₁ (AFB₁), are found to be the most toxic and economically costly. Green farming is striving to replace fungicides and develop natural preventive strategies to minimize crop contamination by these toxic fungal metabolites. In this study, we demonstrated that an aqueous extract of the medicinal plant Micromeria grae...

Besides industrially produced gibberellins (GAs), Fusarium fujikuroi is able to produce additional secondary metabolites such as the pigments bikaverin and neurosporaxanthin and the mycotoxins fumonisins and fusarin C. The global regulation of these biosynthetic pathways is only poorly understood. Recently, the velvet complex containing VeA and several other regulatory proteins was shown to be ...