Pre-harvest strategies for mitigating mycotoxins in cereal crops: Evidence and sustainable approaches

초록

The contamination from fungi leads to mycotoxin production and affects the well-being of humans and animals once they consume the contaminated food and feed. The toxins cause severe harmful effects, and sometimes deaths have been observed. These toxins are produced from all stages of the crop, from the growth, processing, and storage stages. This review aimed to explore how to mitigate the mycotoxin concentration from the growth stage by looking at pre-harvest interventions that can successfully find the solution. Good agricultural practices (GAP), resistant varieties, and biocontrol have successfully reduced the risk of crop contamination from the field to storage. The use of endemic atoxigenic strains as biocontrol isolate has heightened the alleviation of mycotoxins contamination with its counterpart toxigenic strains, additionally, the extrolites secreted by endemic atoxigenic strains and starch-based bioplastic formulations further reduced the extent of mycotoxins contamination. Since the contamination of cereal crops largely begins from the field, pre-harvest prevention should be a focal point to be considered to lessen the risk of mycotoxin contamination.

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