ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

A.R.M. Abd-El-Aziz1, M.A. Mahmoud2 , M.R. Al-Othman1 and Mohamed S. El-shikh1
1Botany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 1145, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
2Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt.
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2013;7(Spl. Edn.: November):341-347
© The Author(s). 2013
Received: 18/10/2013 | Accepted: 06/11/2013 | Published: 30/11/2013
Abstract

The four aflatoxin (AF) biosynthetic pathway genes included regulatory gene aflR and the structural genes aflD, aflM, aflP were evaluated in 59 non-aflatoxigenic Aspergillus flavus isolates isolated from wheat, corn and sorghum grains. The isolates were placed into four groups based on their DNA banding pattern. group I constituted by twenty seven isolates (45.8%) correspond to the complete set of genes. group II constituted by fifteen isolates (25.5%) showed three DNA banding pattern clustered in four profiles: nor-1, ver-1 and omt-A was the most frequent profile (11.9%) followed by nor-1, omt-A and aflR (8.5%) and nor-1, ver-1 and aflR (3.4%), last profile ver-1, omt-A and aflR . group III constituted by thirteen isolates (21.9%) yielded two DNA banding pattern grouped in three characteristic profiles: nor-1 and ver-1 (13.5%), ver-1 and omt-A (6.7%), nor-1 and aflR  (1.7). group IV constituted by four isolates (6.8%) showed two DNA banding pattern clustered in two profiles. Our data show a high level of genetic variability in non-aflatoxigenic A. flavus isolates.

Keywords

Non-aflatoxigenic Aspergillus flavus, nor-1, ver-1, omt-A and aflR genes

Article Metrics

Article View: 791

Share This Article

© The Author(s) 2013. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.