Table 2.
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) of fungal incidence and contamination of sterigmatocystin (STC) at different sampling times with storage at room temperature (RT) and at medium refrigeration (MR).
| Factor | Total Fungi Incidence (%) |
Incidence of Fusarium spp. (%) |
Incidence of A. versicolor (%) |
Incidence of A. flavus (%) |
STC (µg/kg) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sampling Time (A) | N.S. | N.S. | N.S. | N.S. | ** | |||||
| +15 days | 41.1 | 10.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 1.2 | b | ||||
| +45 days | 51.0 | 7.7 | 1.2 | 0.1 | 1.3 | b | ||||
| +75 days | 47.1 | 12.4 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 1.3 | b | ||||
| +105 days | 50.3 | 11.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 2.4 | ab | ||||
| +135 days | 48.5 | 3.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 3.3 | a | ||||
| Storage (B) | ** | N.S. | N.S. | N.S. | N.S. | |||||
| MR | 40.7 | b | 9.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 1.7 | ||||
| RT | 68.8 | a | 9.3 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 2.2 | ||||
| AxB | N.S. | N.S. | N.S. | N.S. | N.S. | |||||
Different letters mean significant differences according to Tukey Test; N.S.: not significant; *: p ≤ 0.05; **: p ≤ 0.01.