Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Conventional morphological identification methods, although reasonably effective in identifying different species of Aspergillus, are generally ineffective in identifying the races and populations of Aspergillus species; it is also true about Aspergillus flavus, which is one of the most important Aspergillus species in Economic and health. In this study, in addition to morphological identification based on microscopic and macroscopic traits of Aspergillus flavus isolates from five dried fruit products, Twenty standardized primers based on ISSR method were used to study the populations of this species. Statistical Multivariate analyzes based on ISSR findings, show different populations from different sources and different locations of Aspergillus flavus can be distinguish from each other with use of this method.

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