Current strategies employ both pre-harvest and post-harvest
measures to reduce the risk of aflatoxin contamination in food and feed. Biological control with non-aflatoxigenic strains that outcompete toxigenic strains in nature has shown promise as a strategy to reduce pre-harvest aflatoxin contamination of cotton, peanut, and corn. Enhancing host resistance is the most widely explored strategy for eliminating pre-harvest aflatoxin contamination by A. flavus. Success in conventional breeding for resistance to mycotoxin-producing or phytopathogenic fungi is reliant upon the availability of resistance gene(s) in the germplasm and there is no genetic resistance available in cotton genotypes.