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Orange Mold, Red Bread Mold
The type species of Neurospora: a very fast orange mold of bread, burnt vegetation and other warm, moist organic matter. In mushroom cultivation it causes orange mold, which overruns sawdust spawn packets and substrate bags, often within a week in hot, humid weather. ITS sequencing confirmed it as the cause of orange mold on Bangladeshi mushroom farms, where it competed with mushroom mycelium for nutrients and space.
Not a food in this form; contaminated substrate should be discarded. Its conidia (as Monilia sitophila) are a minor airborne allergen linked to the milling and baking trades; Neurospora species are otherwise regarded as non-pathogenic.
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