**Meet the editor**

Dr. Mehdi Razzaghi-Abyaneh was born in Tehran-Iran. He obtained his PhD degree in Mycology from Tarbiat Modares University (Iran, 2000). He pursued a training course on identification of antifungal compounds from bioactive plants at the Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University, in the laboratory of Applied Biological Chemistry during 2006-2007. He is currently an

associate professor and head of Mycology Department at the Pasteur Institute of Iran (Tehran, Iran), where he is working on mycotoxins and mycotoxigenic fungi for more than 10 years. His research interests encompass biologically active compounds of plant, fungal and bacterial origins with antifungal properties against a broad spectrum of fungal pathogens. He is also investigating ecology and genetic diversity of Aspergillus section Flavi especially aflatoxin-producing species from soil and other natural habitats. He has supervised a large number of PhD and MSc theses. He has published over fifty papers in international journals and a number of book chapters. Demonstrated for the first time a phenylpropanoid compound named "Dillapiol" isolated from Anethum graveolens as the specific inhibitor of the biosynthesis of aflatoxin G group. He is working on the chemical basis of plant–fungal interactions and determining mode of action of antifungal compounds at cellular and molecular levels.

Contents

**Preface IX**

**Section 1 Molecular Genetics and Management Strategies 1**

Robert L. Brown, Deepak Bhatnagar, Thomas E. Cleveland, Zhi-Yuan

**Aflatoxin/Sterigmatocystin Biosynthesis in Aspergillus Species**

Chapter 2 **Terrestrial Bacteria from Agricultural Soils: Versatile Weapons**

Chapter 3 **A New Approach in Aflatoxin Management in Africa: Targeting**

Carlos Augusto Fernandes Oliveira, Fernanda Bovo, Carlos Humberto Corassin, Alessandra Vincenzi Jager and Kasa

Eva Guadalupe Lizárraga-Paulín, Susana Patricia Miranda-Castro, Ernesto Moreno-Martínez, Irineo Torres-Pacheco and Alma Virginia

Amos Emitati Alakonya and Ethel Oranga Monda

Chapter 5 **Novel Methods for Preventing and Controlling Aflatoxins in**

**Food: A Worldwide Daily Challenge 93**

Chapter 4 **Recent Trends in Microbiological Decontamination of**

Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi, Sanaz Kalantari and Mehdi

Chapter 1 **Development of Maize Host Resistance to Aflatoxigenic Fungi 3**

**against Aflatoxigenic Fungi 23**

**by RNA Silencing Technique 41**

**Aflatoxins in Foodstuffs 59**

Ravindranadha Reddy

Lara-Sagahón

Chen and Abebe Menkir

Razzaghi-Abyaneh
