Penicillium aethiopicum

Short description: Species of fungus

Penicillium aethiopicum

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Fungi
Division:  | Ascomycota
Class:  | Eurotiomycetes
Order:  | Eurotiales
Family:  | Aspergillaceae
Genus:  | Penicillium
Species:  |

P. aethiopicum

Binomial name
Penicillium aethiopicum

Frisvad, J.C.; Filtenborg, O. 1989[1]

Type strain
BCRC 32957, CBS 484.84, CCRC 32957, ETH 11, FRR 2942, IBT 21501, IBT 5903, IMI 285524[2]

Penicillium aethiopicum is a fungus species of the genus of Penicillium.[3] Penicillium aethiopicum produces viridicatumtoxin and griseofulvin, two structurally interesting polyketides.[4][5]

## See also

* List of Penicillium species

## References

1. ↑ MycoBank
2. ↑ Straininfo of Penicillium aethiopicum
3. ↑ Taxonomy Browser
4. ↑ Chooi, Y. H.; Cacho, R.; Tang, Y. (2010). "Identification of the Viridicatumtoxin and Griseofulvin Gene Clusters from Penicillium aethiopicum". Chemistry & Biology 17 (5): 483–494. doi:10.1016/j.chembiol.2010.03.015. PMID 20534346.
5. ↑ John I. Pitt Ailsa D. Hocking (5 August 2009). Fungi and Food Spoilage (3 ed.). Springer. ISBN 0387922067.

## Further reading

* Polyphasic Taxonomy of subgenus penicillium J.C. Frisvad & R. A. Samson

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