Take Penicillium, for example—it’s the mold responsible for producing penicillin, one of the most important antibiotics in medicine. However, if you find Penicillium growing in your home ...

The colorful veins in your favorite Roquefort, Stilton, or Gorgonzola cheese do not happen by chance, it is a specific process that makes blue cheese blue.

A recent study has shed light on the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms of Penicillium expansum, the fungal culprit behind ...

very unusual. He took a sample of the mold. He found that it was from the penicillium family, later specified as Penicillium notatum. Fleming presented his findings in 1929, but they raised little ...

France holds a great deal of pride in its gastronomy, and the country’s variety of cheeses make up a significant chunk of its ...

IT was considered of interest to study the effect of plant-growth substances on the production of penicillin by the mould P. notatum. Several experiments have been carried out using indole-3 ...

Since its initial use in cheesemaking in 1898, the strain has been cloned repeatedly to maintain consistency in taste and ...