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SUBMITTER: Ropars J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4001442 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ropars Jeanne J López-Villavicencio Manuela M Dupont Joëlle J Snirc Alodie A Gillot Guillaume G Coton Monika M Jany Jean-Luc JL Coton Emmanuel E Giraud Tatiana T
Evolutionary applications 20140320 4
The emblematic fungus Penicillium roqueforti is used throughout the world as a starter culture in the production of blue-veined cheeses. Like other industrial filamentous fungi, P. roqueforti was thought to lack a sexual cycle. However, an ability to induce recombination is of great economic and fundamental importance, as it would make it possible to transform and improve industrial strains, promoting the creation of novel phenotypes and eliminating the deleterious mutations that accumulate duri ...[more]