Penicillium excelsum sp. nov from the Brazil Nut Tree Ecosystem in the Amazon Basin’

A new Penicillium species, P. excelsum, is described here using morphological characters, extrolite and partial sequence data from the ITS, β-tubulin and calmodulin genes. It was isolated repeatedly using samples of nut shells and flowers from the brazil nut tree, Bertolletia excelsa, as well as bee...

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Main Authors: Taniwaki, Marta Hiromi, Pitt, John I., Iamanaka, Beatriz T., Massi, Fernanda P., Fungaro, Maria Helena P., Frisvad, Jens C.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4696661/