Figure 5.

(A) Antifungal activity of Ag-Chit NCs against A. flavus collected from feed samples. (i), control (without nanocomposite treatment), (ii), (iii), and (iv) fungal mat treated with 30, 60, and 90 milligrams of nanocomposites. All petri dishes treatment was incubated at 28 °C for 10 days. (B) Fungal mycelium of P. expansum treated with Ag-Chit NCs referred to the morphological changes in fungal hyphae, SEM images depicted markedly shriveled, crinkled cell walls, and flattened hyphae of the fungi (a), hyphal cell wall and vesicle damaged (b), irregular branching (a and b), and collapsed cell, formation of a layer of extruded material (d) Source (Abd-Elsalam KA. unpublished data).