Penicillium (/ˌpɛnɪˈsɪliəm/) is a genus of ascomycetous fungi that is part of the mycobiome of many species and is of major importance in the natural environment, in food spoilage, and in food and drug production.
Penicillium is a genus of ascomycetous fungi that is part of the mycobiome of many species and is of major importance in the natural environment, in food spoilage, and in food and drug production.
Describe in detail about fungi and general characters of fungi and different modifications and reproduction in fungi especially for undergraduate students
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Classification of zycomycota and chytridiomycota and their general characters will give us an idea about fungi that comes under and idea and variations about different categories of fungi
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This report will contain a few general discussions about the Kingdom Fungi and proceed to Focus on the Ascomycetes (Sac Fungi). Majority of the information in this slide came from online sources. If you feel the need to correct some parts, please let me know on the comments section.
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2. Penicillium is a genus of saprophytic (feeding on dead and decaying materials) fungi.
They are commonly known as blue or green mould. They are economically important for
the production of cheese, organic acids and antibiotics. They play an important role as a
decomposer in the ecosystem. Penicillium can be found at various places such as soil,
air, on decaying food, etc. Penicillin is one of the most important antibiotics extracted
from Penicillium sp.
3. Classification
Penicillium is a genus under phylum Ascomycota or Ascomycetes. They
are classified by the production of ascospores during sexual reproduction.
Penicillium means “painter’s brush”. They are named so, due to the
presence of chains of conidia (produced asexually) appearing as a brush
terminally on mycelia.
Domain Eukaryota
Kingdom Fungi
Phylum Ascomycota
Class Eurotiomycetes
Order Eurotiales
Family Trichocomaceae
Genus Penicillium
Some common species of Penicillium include:
Penicillium notatum
Penicillium chrysogenum
Penicillium camemberti
Penicillium claviforme
Penicillium echinulatum
Penicillium glaucum
Penicillium roqueforti
4. Structure
•The vegetative structure of Penicillium is a multicellular mycelium
•The mycelium is made up of highly branched, multinucleated and septate long
thread-like filamentous structure known as hyphae
•The cell wall is made up of a glucose polysaccharide and chitin
•The cytoplasmic continuity is maintained through central pore, present in the septa
•Conidiophores are present at the branch ending along with spherical conidiospores,
which are asexual spores produced exogenously
•Conidia are produced in the basipetal succession, i.e. the youngest conidium is
present at the base
•Conidia are produced from the specialised cells called phialide, present in the group
and give a brush-like appearance to the fungus
•Ascospores are found in asci arranged in ascocarps, which are sexual spores
produced endogenously
•Some of the mycelia grow deeper into the substratum to derive food
•The food is stored in the form of oil globules
5. Reproduction and Life Cycle
Penicillium reproduce by all the three processes, i.e. vegetative, asexual and sexual
1. Vegetative reproduction is by fragmentation and each of the fragments develops
separately, making a complete mycelium
2. Asexual reproduction takes place in the special structures called conidiophore.
•Conidiophores may be unbranched or branched and differentiate into metulae
•Number of flask-shaped phialide cells develop at the end of each metulae, which
form conidia
•Phialide cells divide mitotically forming a conidium. Phialide cells again divide
pushing the first conidium towards outside and the second conidium is formed. This
process repeats resulting in a chain of conidia, found in a basipetal succession
•The conidia may be blue, green or yellow in colour and oval or elliptical in shape
•Conidia get detached from the parent after maturation and dispersed by the wind
•They get attached to a suitable substratum and germinate
•Germination is by the germ tube formation. The nucleus divides mitotically multiple
times. All the nuclei enter the germ tube and followed by the elongation and formation
of septa to give rise to a mature and branched mycelium
6. 3. Sexual reproduction is by the formation of ascospores
•Some species of Penicillium are homothallic and some are heterothallic (male and female sex organs
present on different thallus)
•The male and female sex organs are antheridium and ascogonium respectively
•One of the cells of the vegetative mycelium develops into ascogonium, which is unicellular having a single
nucleus. The nucleus of ascogonium undergoes repeated division to produce 32 to 64 nuclei
•The developing antheridium branch coils around the ascogonium and the apical part of it is separated by
septa forming a unicellular antheridium having a single nucleus
•After maturation, antheridium bends and touches the ascogonial wall and at the point of contact, cell wall
dissolves and cytoplasm of both the cells get intermixed. The process is known as plasmogamy
•There occurs an intermediate dikaryon phase, which is a dikaryotic stage with 2 nuclei (n+n) present in
the cell
•The ascogonium repeatedly divide by partition of the wall forming many binucleate cells arranged one
above another
•The terminal dikaryotic cell swells up forming ascus mother cell
•Karyogamy (fusion of the two nuclei) occurs in the cell forming diploid cell (2n)
•The diploid zygote undergoes first meiosis and then mitosis to form 8 nuclei. Each accumulates some
cytoplasm resulting in the formation of 8 ascospores
•The ascospores are released by the dissolution of ascus wall and get attached to a suitable substratum
•The ascospores develop by forming a germ tube and mature into the branched mycelium
7. Economic Importance
Penicillium species are very important economically. They produce many food products, organic acids,
antibiotics and mycotoxins.
•Cheese production- many Penicillium species are used in the production of different kinds of cheese,
e.g. blue cheese, P. camemberti forms Camembert and Brie cheese and P. roqueforti forms Roquefort
cheese
•Enzymes and Organic acid production- many Penicillium species are used in the production of organic
acids such as citric acid, gluconic acid, tartaric acid and enzymes like amylases, proteases, cellulase,
lipase and pectinase
•Antibiotic (Penicillin) production- In 1929 Alexander Fleming isolated the antibiotic Penicillin from
penicillium, which inhibited the growth of Gram-positive bacteria. Later Florey and Chain extracted and
produced Penicillin from the moulds to treat soldiers of the World War II
Penicillin is produced by Penicillium chrysogenum (earlier known as Penicillium notatum). The naturally
occurring penicillins are Penicillin G (Benzylpenicillin), which is given by intramuscular injection
and Penicillin V (Phenoxymethylpenicillin) given orally to treat various infections.
Penicillin act by inhibiting enzymes responsible for the cell wall formation of bacteria and activating
enzymes responsible for the breakdown of the protective wall of the bacteria.
•Penicillium species are also used in the production of antifungal drug and tumour suppressing compounds
•Penicillium species are also used in mycoremediation, i.e. bioremediation process using fungus to clean
the environment due to their ability to breakdown xenobiotic compounds