Crop Management to Reduce Aflatoxin Contamination and Improve Biological Control

In order to support efforts to improve aflatoxin management methodologies, assess the extent to which agronomic practices, including winter cropping, differentially affect long-term influences of atoxigenic strain treatments. Evaluate inexpensive substrates and formulation for atoxigenic product development. Identify agronomic, environmental, and ecological factors (i.e. hosts, etc.) that favor development of highly toxic fungal community structures and practices that favor selection and retention of atoxigenics.