New colours for old in the blue-cheese fungus Penicillium roqueforti
Abstract Penicillium roqueforti is used worldwide in the production of blue-veined cheese. The blue-green colour derives from pigmented spores formed by fungal growth. Using a combination of bioinformatics, targeted gene deletions, and heterologous gene expression we discovered that pigment formatio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2024-01-01
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| Series: | npj Science of Food |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41538-023-00244-9 |