Penicillium glaucum

Penicillium glaucum

Taxobox
name = "Penicillium glaucum"


image_width = 250px
image_caption = Gorgonzola an Italian cheese containing "veins" of Penicillium glaucum.
regnum = Fungi
phylum = Ascomycota
classis = Euascomycetes
ordo = Eurotiales
familia = Trichomaceae
genus = Penicillium
species = "P. glaucum"
binomial = "Penicillium glaucum"

"Penicillium glaucum" is a mold which is used in the making of many types of cheese including the French blue cheeses, Fourme d'Ambert, Gorgonzola, and Stilton.

In 1874, Sir William Roberts, a physician from Manchester noted that cultures of the mold did not display bacterial contamination. Louis Pasteur would build on this discovery, noting that "Bacillus anthracis" would not grow in the presence of the related mold, "Penicillium notatum". Its antibiotic powers were independently discovered and tested on animals by French physician, Ernest Duchesne, but his thesis was ignored.

"Penicillium glaucum" feeds on only one optical isomer of tartaric acid, which makes it extremely useful in advanced higher chemistry projects on chirality.

See also Discoveries of anti-bacterial effects of penicillium moulds before Fleming


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