“…Plates were incubated at 25°C for seven days and colonies grew that initially appeared white, then turned dark green (Figure 2). Based on the morphological characteristics, particularly the range of conidia sizes (3.0 to 5.4 μm), shape (ellipsoidal) and the colour, the fungus was identified as Aspergillus niger (Silva et al., 2011; Li et al., 2020). For molecular confirmation, the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region was amplified using ITS1 and ITS4 primers (Santos et al., 2016).…”