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A fungus was isolated from aviation fuel and identified as Monascus floridanus P.F. Cannon & E.L. Barnard (FR827895) according to its morphological and genetic properties. The isolate has some properties that are unusual for the type strain, including a prominent stripe on one of the sides of the ascospores and occurrence, along with the known Basipetospora-type thallic conidia, of the phialophora-like spore formation. The isolated strain Monascus floridanus, like the known kerosene fungus Hormoconis resinae (Lindau) Arx & G.A. de Vries, is capable of active growth in aviation fuel.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Vasilyeva, L.N. Chekunova, E.N. Bilanenko, A.V. Kachalkin, A.V. Polyakova, 2012, published in Mikrobiologiya, 2012, Vol. 81, No. 2, pp. 266–272.
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Vasilyeva, A.A., Chekunova, L.N., Bilanenko, E.N. et al. Characterization of the strain Monascus floridanus P. F. Cannon & E. L. Barnard, isolated from aviation fuel. Microbiology 81, 244–250 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261712010158
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