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Product Format
frozen
Type Strain
no
Preceptrol®
no
Morphology
On PDA medium at 25°C after 7 days, mycelium creamy white to dark brown, velutinous with tufts of aerial hyphae. Reverse buff to dark brown. Hyphae hyaline, guttulate. Conidiophores simple and branched, verrucose, pale to hyaline at base becoming dark brown at apex. Phialides in whorls of 2-6. Conidia hyaline becoming dark brown with age, subglobose to broadly ellipsoidal, smooth, guttulate, 6.0-8.0 X 4.5-7.0 μm.
Medium
ATCC® Medium 307: Cornmeal agar
ATCC® Medium 336: Potato dextrose agar (PDA)
Vesper SJ, et al. Hemolysis, toxicity, and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis of Stachybotrys chartarum strains. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 65: 3175-3181, 1999. PubMed: 10388719
Harrach B, et al. Identification of "water-soluble" toxins produced by a Stachybotrys atra strain from Finland. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 44: 494-495, 1982. PubMed: 6889838
