Sentence examples for maize samples were from inspiring English sources

The bags containing maize samples were autoclaved at 121 °C and 15 psi for 60 min.

Maize samples were adjusted to 45% MC, and 100 g each were added to 4″ × 3″ × 18″ high density polypropylene bags containing a 0.5 µm filter patch.

Radial mycelial growth could not be measured because the 100 g maize samples were in three-dimensional substrate blocks, so growth was checked daily and the number of days required to completely colonize the substrate was recorded.

Fumonisins (FB1) analyses were also carried out in TFDA laboratories where a sample of 250 g of dry-shelled maize samples were mixed and ground using a Romer Mill and homogenised and stored at −20 °C until analysis.

A study by Kamala et al. (2016) in various agro-ecological zones of Tanzania found that 45%and85%85 % of maize samples were positive for aflatoxins and fumonisins respectively, with levels that ranged from 0.1 to 269 μg kg − 1 for aflatoxins and from 49 to 18,273 μg kg − 1 for fumonisins.

Maize samples were classified as homegrown, purchased, or relief maize.

DNA from soybean and maize samples was diluted to contain approximately 100, 20, 10, 1, 0.5 and 0.1 ng of DNA.

The fitting of Guinier plots from untreated, dilute acid treated and acid plus iron treated maize samples are shown in Fig.  4b d.

At the plex level of 96, the coverage of GBS SNPs in this study is approximately at 1×, given the averaged raw read counts for our maize samples being 2.3 million reads.

The aflatoxin level in the market maize samples was up to 46,400 ppb, more than a thousand-fold higher than the regulated 20-ppb maximum limit in food; 65% of the maize samples from Makueni were above the 20-ppb limit (Lewis et al. 2005).

A case-study example is shown in Figure 5, where a maize sample was found positive for two construct specific methods, QL-CON-00-011 (30) and QT-CON-00-005 (29) and to two element detection methods, QT-ELE-00-001 (31) and QL-ELE-00-021 (32).