Fungal Genomics & Biology
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Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima, 5562 Nanatsuka, Shobara, Hiroshima, Japan

Biography

Dr. Toshi-Hide Arima is an working in in the Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan. His study interests major on emerging or re-emerging disease and the microbes- fungalinteraction.Toshi-Hide Arima is the author/editors/reviewer in several international journals. He published 10 articles in many journals and the articles are informative and got good citations.

 

Publications

• Short Communication   
  PCR Detection of Heat-resistant Fungi
  Author(s): Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Satoshi Yamashita, Nobuhiro Tagashira, Toshi-Hide Arima* and Yutaka Kikoku*
  
  Heat-resistant fungi inhabit soil and can contaminate fruit and can also survive high-temperature treatments such as pasteurization. Fungal spoilage of heat-processed food has emerged as a major problem in the food industry. Moreover, heat-resistant fungi are capable of producing numerous mycotoxins; therefore, they pose a serious threat to human health. To ensure the safety of food production, Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) based methods for detection of heat-resistant fungi have been developed. Conventional PCR methods are highly specific for the detection of Talaromyces macrosporus and Talaromyces trachyspermus, which have high heat tolerance and the potential to produce mycotoxins. The applicability of conventional PCR methods to food analyses has been successfully tested on artificially contaminated blueberries. PCR detection of T. macrosporus and T. trachy.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2165-8056.20.S1.003

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