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19 Cards in this Set
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Aspergillus |
Mold Produces aflatoxins, making it an important pathogen Xerophilic (grows in dry conditions) |
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Alternaria |
Mold Brown/black rot on fruits, grains, and other foods Has large, ovate or club-shaped conidia in chains |
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Geotrichum |
Mold Grows on food-contact equipment ("machinery mold")Has rectangular arthrospores |
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Penicillium |
Mold Spoils fruits, veggies, and more P. roqueforti and P. camemberti are used for Roquefort and Camembert cheese |
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Cladosporium |
Mold "Black spot" on country-style hame and frozen meat Dark, tree-like budding conidia |
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Botyritis |
Mold Gray rot of apples, pears, and other fruit Long, stiff conidiophores with branched ends |
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Fusarium |
Mold Spoilage Sickle-shaped multicellular conidia |
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Rhizopus |
Mold Non-septate hyphae with rhizoids and stolons Spoilage |
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Mucor |
Mold Some species used in rennet productionOthers spoilage |
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Thamnidium
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Mold Thamnidium elegans grows on stored eggs Spoilage |
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Byssochlamys |
Mold Ascospores: very heat-resistant Fruit spoilage |
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Saccharomyces |
S. cerevisiae used in baking bread, wine and beer production S. bailii spoils tomato sauce and more |
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Schizosaccharomyces |
Osmophilic: growth in high sugar conditions Can spoil honey |
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Zygosaccharomyces |
Osmophilic: growth in high sugar conditions Can grow at water activity of 0.62 (very low) Some species used to make shoyu and miso |
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Pichia |
Ascospores shaped like little derby hats! Spoils alcohol, saurkraut, pickles |
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Debaromyces |
Growth in 24% NaCl at water activity of 0.65 Spoilage |
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Rhodotorula |
Red spots on sauerkraut |
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Kloeckera |
Apiculate (pear-shaped) Spoilage of wines and fruit juices |
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Trichosporon
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On refrigerated foods Produces lipase |
