The resistive qualities of the maize lines utilized in the present study, B73 and TZAR101, were determined by two quantitative measurements: accumulated fungal biomass within homogenized immature kernel tissues at 10 and 14 DAI, and aflatoxin levels in mature kernel tissues (Table 2). Inoculation significantly increased the A. flavus biomass in both lines (p ¼ 0.0036), but there was no significant difference between the overall fungal biomass detected in for both lines, B73 and TZAR101, for both treatments, wounded and inoculated, across both time points examined in the study (p ¼ 0.3791). However, significantly greater A. flavus biomass accumulation was found in B73 in comparison to TZAR101 following inoculation at 14 DAI (p ¼ 0.0244). As expected, B73 showed significantly greater aflatoxin accumulation in inoculated samples in comparison to TZAR101 (Table 2). Variation present in the non-treated control and wounded samples is likely due to natural infection of the ears byA. flavus in the environment possibly through the wounding site created by the inoculation technique or insect damage.