A Fungus Among Kernels (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

A Fungus Among Kernels

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These corn cobs show the sites where they were infected with Aspergillus fungus. Although non-transgenic and transgenic kernels showed evidence of equal infection, the transgenics accumulated no toxin. Red dots mark the kernels harvested by the researchers to then determine toxin levels.

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Monica Schmidt/UA

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