Penicillium Synonyms

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Synonyms for Penicillium

genus Penicillium
genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin
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Words Related to Penicillium

notatum
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chrysogenum
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rhizopus
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Trichoderma
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cladosporium
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alternaria
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Beauveria
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expansum
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toxin-producing
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harzianum
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  • Thus, Pasteur showed that Penicillium glaucum, when grown in an aqueous solution of ammonium racemate, decomposed the dextro-tartrate, leaving the laevotartrate, and the solution which was originally inactive to polarized light became dextro-rotatory.

  • It started when penicillin was extracted from the mold penicillium notatum in the 1930s.

  • However, several molds of the genus penicillium are capable of producing mycotoxins which may produce some adverse health effect.

  • Division A comprises (a) the true Ascomycetes, of which the moulds Eurotium and Penicillium are examples, and (b) the Hemiasci, which includes the yeasts.

  • In some of the true Ascomycetes, such as Penicillium glaucum, the conidia if grown in saccharine solutions, which they have the power of fermenting, develop single cell yeast-like forms, and do not - at any rate for a time - produce again the characteristic branching mycelium.

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