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  • Different drying technologies and alternation of mycobiots in the raw material of Hyssopus Officinalis L
    2020
    Co-Authors: Raila Algirdas, Lugauskas Albinas, Kemzūraitė Aurelija, Zvicevičius Egidijus, Ragažinskienė Ona, Railienė Marija
    Abstract:

    Contamination of medicinal plant mass with mycobiots is one of(he negative factors deteriorating the quality of raw material. In order to evaluate the impact of the Yield processing technologies upon the changes of mycobiots in raw material, the mycobiotic conditions of herb hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis L.) raw material were evaluated under various regimes of active ventilation and optimization of the drying parameters. The impact of ventilation intensity and temperature of drying agent upon the changes and abundance of mycobiota species in medicinal raw material was determined. Irrespective of file temperature of the airflow, the strongest suppressive effect Upon the mycobiotic contamination in Hyssopi herba was produced by the 5,000 airflow. Analysis of the isolated fungi revealed the prevalence of Penicillium, Aspergillus, Alternaria, Cladosporium, Mucor, Rhizopus species in the raw material. In separate samples Botrytis cinerea, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, Aureobasidium pullulans, Chryosporium merdarium, Cladorrhinum foecundissimum, Ulocladium consortiale, Trichoderma hamatum, T harzianum, Gilmaniella humicola, Talaromyces flavus, Rhizomucor pusillus, Hansfordia ovalispora, Verticicladium trifidum, Trichosporiella cerebriformis Micromycetes were also rather abundant. Detection of the above-mentioned Micromycetes fit herb hyssop samples differed, and partially depended upon the medium used for their isolationChemijos institutasVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij

  • Toxic Micromycetes in grain raw material during its processing
    2020
    Co-Authors: Lugauskas Albinas, Raila Algirdas, Railienė Marija, Raudonienė Vita
    Abstract:

    In 2003-2005 Micromycetes were isolated and identified from wheat, barley, rye, buckwheat grain brought into mills or from processing enterprises. Contamination of the produced flour with Micromycete propagules (cfu g(-1)), changes in Micromycete diversity and abundance in the course of flour storage, preparation and baking of bread, production of groats or other food products and fodder were determined. Most attention was given to widely distributed Micromycetes, known producers of toxins: Alternaria alternata, Aspergillus candidus, A. clavatus, A. flavus, A. fumigatus, A. niger, A. oryzae, A. (=Eurotium) repens, Fusarium culmorum, F. equiseti, F. graminearum, F. moniliforme, F. oxvsporum, F. poae, F. sporotrichioides, Penicillium brevicompactum, P. chrysogenum, P. cyclopium, P. daleae, P. expansum, P. funiculosum, P. roqueforti, P. urticae, P. verruculosum, P. viridicatum, Phoma exiqua, Rhizomucor pusillus, Rhizopus stolonifer, Trichothecium roseum. Abilities of these Micromycetes to produce secondary toxic metabolites were determined as well as possible hazard caused to people consuming the contaminated productsVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij

  • Factors determining accumulation of mycotoxin producers in cereal grain during harvesting
    2020
    Co-Authors: Lugauskas Albinas, Raila Algirdas, Zvicevičius Egidijus, Railienė Marija, Novošinskas Henrikas
    Abstract:

    During the meteorologically contrasting period of 2003-2005, the contamination of winter wheat, malt barley and fodder barley grain with Micromycetes during grain harvesting and preparation for storage was investigated. Micromycetes of over 70 species ascribed to 16 genera were isolated and identified, the density of their populations in grain was determined. Micromycetes with a population density of >50% were attributed to dominant species. Short biological characteristic, ecological peculiarities of the dominating Micromycetes are provided; factors determining intensity of their development and abilities to synthesise and excrete toxic metabolites are indicated. The importance of grain drying for stabilisation of its contamination with Micromycete propagules is highlighted. It is noted that in grain dried in shaft dryer using air at 90°C the number of cfu (colony forming units) was reduced from 2.2 to 8.2 times. When active ventilation is applied, conditions favourable for the development of Micromycetes remain longest in the upper layers of the mound. The airflow passing through the layer of damp grain inhibits the development of Micromycetes, but an increase of comparative air flow for more than 500 m'-(t-h)"1 did not reduce the abundance of Micromycete cfu. After drying Alternaria alternata, Fusarium avenaceum, F. culmorum, Penidllum verrucosum dominated in wheat grain; Aspergillus flavus, Bipolaris sorokiniana, Fusarium chlamydosporum, F. culmorum, F tricinctum in malts barley grain; Fusarium avenaceum, F. culmorum, F. tricinctum, Alternaria alternata in fodder barley grain. It has been determined that all Micromycetes recorded on grain after drying are potential producers of toxic metabolites, i.e. are hazardous to human healthVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij

  • Application of ozone for reduction of mycological infection in wheat grain
    2020
    Co-Authors: Raila Algirdas, Lugauskas Albinas, Railienė Marija, Steponavičius Dainius, Steponavičenė Aušra, Zvicevičius Egidijus
    Abstract:

    In 2004-2005 means were sought to clean grain from microbiological contamination during transportation and storage. For this purpose, grains with a moisture content of 23.2% of the ?Tauras? variety were selected and ventilated daily for 8 hours until grain wetness was reduced to 14.0%. The effect of ventilation duration and ozone impact was evaluated according to the changes in grain contamination with Micromycetes propagules (cfu?g-1), and alternation of Micromycetes species on the grain surface. At drying grains by active ventilation with an ozone ? air mixture, at O3 concentration of 700 ppb, the drying period was reduced by about 20%, and mycological contamination depends on initial grain moisture content (w): when w=15.2%, contamination was reduced by up to 2.2 times, and when w=22.0% ? up to 3 times. At the same time, the composition of Micromycetes species on the grain surface changed significantly: in non-ventilated grain there were detected Micromycetes of 26 species, and in ventilated grain ? of 11 species. Efficient ozone impact was established only when the mound of wet (w > 18.0%) grains was exposed to ozoneVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij

  • Preventive measures reducing superficial mycobiotic contamination of grain
    2020
    Co-Authors: Steponavičius Dainius, Raila Algirdas, Lugauskas Albinas, Steponavičienė Aušra, Kemzūraitė Aurelija
    Abstract:

    Search for the preventive measures reducing the accumulation of mycotoxin producers in food raw material was carried out. Active ventilation was used; the impact of the electro-chemically activated air (ozone) and electro-chemically activated water (anolyte) on the Micromycetes prevailing in grain raw material for food (GRMF) was determined. The GRMF was dried by active ventilation using the ozone-air mixture. Ozone (concentration 1250 ppb) disinfects the surface of the raw material and creates conditions unfavourable for the increase of mycobiotic contamination in drying upper layers of the grain mound. Within 8 days the contamination of GRMF in a mound decreased by 50%, while in its lower layers – more than 3 times. Ventilation of the mound with the above-mentioned concentration of the ozone-air mixture has ceased the active functioning of Fusarium avenaceum, F. graminearum, F. poae, F. solani, F. tricinctum F. sporotrichioides Micromycetes and has considerably retarded the development of Alternaria alternata and other fungi. Anolyte (0.05% of chlorine concentration) reduced the mycobiotic contamination of GRMF by almost 2.5 times. The optimal treatment duration is from 0.5 to 1 hour. The optimal technical parameters, allowing the use of these measures for the preparation of grain food safety technologies, were elaborated; they are designed for more efficient protection of human health against Micromycetes and their toxic metabolites, which are abundantly produced and released into the environmentVytauto Didžiojo universitetasŽemės ūkio akademij

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