“…Lactic acid bacteria (LABs) are a known potential source for generating a variety of secondary metabolites such as bacteriocines, organic acids and peptides (Cizeikiene, Juodeikiene, Paskevicius, & Bartkiene, 2013). In the past decade the interest for antifungal LABs has increased and different studies have showed that many LAB strains have the potential to combat the proliferation of fungi in various food and feed materials (Rouse, Harnett, Vaughan, & Van Sinderen, 2008;Dalie, Deschamps, & Richard-Forget, 2010;Mauch, Dal Bello, Coffey, & Arendt, 2010;Gerez, Torino, Rollan & De Valdez, 2009;Dal Bello et al, 2007). Consumers are demanding the replacement of artificial chemical preservatives by natural biopreservatives to reduce fungal contamination in foods (Brul & Coote, 1999;Crowley, Mahony, & Van Sinderen, 2013;Reis, Paula, Casarotti, & Penna, 2012;Schnurer & Magnusson, 2005).…”