Table 1.

Minimum relative humidity and seed moisture content for the growth of common storage fungi (from Meronuk [32]).

Relative Humidity (%)	Fungi	Seed Equilibrium Moisture Content 1 (%)
		Starchy Cereals	Soybeans	Sunflower, Safflower, Peanut
65–70	Aspergillus halophilicus	13.0–14.0	12.0–13.0	5.0–6.0
70–75	A. restrictus, A. glaucus, Wallemia sebi	14.0–15.0	13.0–14.0	6.0–7.0
75–80	A. candidus, A. ochraceus, plus the above	14.5–16.0	14.0–15.0	7.0–8.0
80–85	A. flavus, Penicillium, plus the above	16.0–18.0	15.0–17.0	8.0–10.0
85–90	Penicillium, plus the above	18.0–20.0	17.0–19.0	10.0–12.0

¹ Figures are approximations, in practice, variations up to ±1% can be expected.