The assistant professor at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Basrah, Dr. Labid Abdullah Najm Al-Saad, was chosen to discuss the doctoral student Alia Hussein Haikal from the Plant Protection Department at the College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences at the University of Baghdad.
For her thesis tagged (Protection of maize crop by using some nanomaterials from infection with the fungus Aspergillus flavus and its effect on aflatoxin B1).
The study included isolating and diagnosing the fungus A.flavus, identifying the isolates producing AFB1 toxin, and estimating production quantities therein, and then treating grains contaminated with the toxin with chemical and natural materials to reduce the rates of contamination with AFB1 poison. It included urea, chitosan, phyllex, and fungal extract of Agaricus and Pleurotus, both of its normal and nano types. and nanoparticles morally over the rest of the transactions
With its preventive and curative phases, it prevented the growth of mushrooms and food contamination with it in the case of preventive spraying, and reduced the levels of the toxin to non-toxic levels for curative treatments.
