Authors: Min Qiu Ruisheng Xie Yu Shi Haimin Chen Yali Wen Yongsheng Gao Xiufang Hu
Publish Date: 2009/12/30
Volume: 26, Issue: 6, Pages: 993-998
Abstract
Fungal pigments are a potential resource as natural food colorant Endophytic fungus SX01 which is able to produce abundant soluble red pigments was isolated from the twigs of Ginkgo biloba L For further research and utilization of this strain and its secondary metabolites morphological and molecular characteristics of SX01 was identified Morphological identification which employed light microscope and scanning electron microscope showed that SX01 was a species of genera Penicillium ITS158SITS2 region and 18S rRNA gene were then cloned and the molecular phylogeny of these two sequences proved that strain SX01 was Penicillium purpurogenumThis research was supported by Xinmiao Talents Scheme of Zhejiang Province China 2007R40G2060031 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China 30670482 The work was performed in Institute of Bioengineering Zhejiang SciTech University P R China
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