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Fusarium venenatum Nirenberg is the filamentous fungus used to produce mycoprotein (marketed as Quorn), grown by continuous submerged fermentation on glucose with a nitrogen source and harvested as protein-rich mycelium. The production strain (A3/5) was isolated from soil in the UK in the 1960s and was originally identified as F. graminearum. It is one of the most commercially significant cultivated fungi by biomass.
Described from Europe; production strain from the UK.
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