Aspergillus fructus

Aspergillus fructus is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus.[1] It is from the Versicolores section.[1][2] The species was first described in 2012.[1]

Aspergillus fructus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Eurotiales
Family:	Trichocomaceae
Genus:	Aspergillus
Species:	A. fructus
Binomial name
Aspergillus fructus Jurjevic, Peterson & Horn, 2012

Growth and morphology

A. fructus has been cultivated on both Czapek yeast extract agar (CYA) plates and Malt Extract Agar Oxoid® (MEAOX) plates. The growth morphology of the colonies can be seen in the pictures below.

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  Aspergillus fructus growing on CYA plate
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  Aspergillus fructus growing on MEAOX plate

References

1. Jurjevic, Zeljko; Peterson, Stephen W.; Horn, Bruce W. (2012). "Aspergillus section Versicolores: nine new species and multilocus dNA sequence based phylogeny". IMA Fungus. 3 (1): 59–795. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2012.03.01.07. ISSN 2210-6340. PMC 3399103. PMID 23155501.
2. Siqueira, J.P.Z.; Sutton, D.A.; Garcia, D.; Gené, J.; Thomson, P.; Wiederhold, N.; Guarro, J. (2016). "Species diversity of Aspergillus section Versicolores in clinical samples and antifungal susceptibility". Fungal Biology. 120 (11): 1458–1467. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2016.02.006. PMID 27742099.

Further reading

• Sabino R, Veríssimo C, Parada H, Brandão J, Viegas C, Carolino E, Clemons KV, Stevens DA (2014). "Molecular screening of 246 Portuguese Aspergillus isolates among different clinical and environmental sources". Medical Mycology. 52 (5): 519–529. doi:10.1093/mmy/myu006. PMID 24847040.
• Jurjević Ž, Peterson SW, Solfrizzo M, Peraica M (2013). "Sterigmatocystin production by nine newly described Aspergillus species in section Versicolores grown on two different media". Mycotoxin Research. 29 (3): 141–5. doi:10.1007/s12550-013-0160-4. PMID 23417508.