Penicillium tricolor

Penicillium tricolor is a species of fungus in the genus Penicillium which was isolated from wheat in Canada.^[1][3][4] Penicillium tricolor produces xanthomegnin, viomellein, vioxanthin, terrestric acid, rugulosuvine, verrucofortine, puberuline, asteltoxin^[4][5][6][7]

Penicillium tricolor
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Eurotiales
Family:	Aspergillaceae
Genus:	Penicillium
Species:	P. tricolor
Binomial name
Penicillium tricolor Frisvad, J.C.; Seifert, K.A.; Samson, R.A.; Mills, J.T. 1994[1]
Type strain
CBS 635.93, CCFC007894, DAOM 216240, IBT 12493, MUCL 45253[2]

References

1. MycoBank
2. Straininfo of Penicillium tricolor
3. UniProt
4. Frisvad, Jens C.; Seifert, Keith A.; Samson, Robert A.; Mills, John T. (1994). "Penicillium tricolor, a new mould species from Canadian wheat". Canadian Journal of Botany. 72 (7): 933. doi:10.1139/b94-118.
5. Jan Dijksterhuis; Robert A. Samson (2007). Food Mycology: A Multifaceted Approach to Fungi and Food. CRC Press. ISBN 1-4200-2098-6.
6. Dilip K. Arora (2003). Fungal Biotechnology in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Applications. 0203913361. ISBN 0-203-91336-1.
7. Digvir S. Jayas; Noel D. G. White; William E. Muir (1994). Stored-Grain Ecosystems. CRC Press. ISBN 0-8247-8983-0.

Further reading

• Qu, Yang; Lian, Bin (2013). "Bioleaching of rare earth and radioactive elements from red mud using Penicillium tricolor RM-10". Bioresource Technology. 136: 16–23. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2013.03.070. PMID 23548400.
• Mills, J T; Frisvad, J C; Seifert, K A; Abramson, D (1995). "Identification of Nephrotoxic Penicillium Species from Cereal Grains". Mycotoxin Research. 11 (1): 25–35. doi:10.1007/BF03192059. PMID 23606033.