Thursday, March 7, 2019

Exploring the fungal breakdown of reheated lunches

Lunch dish left out for too long.

Forgetting to immediately clean a lunch dish provides an easy way to grow a variety of fungal organisms without using a culture plate. Both Rhizopus spp. and Aspergillus niger have dark colored spores. The Aspergillus niger conidia are uniformly round. The Rhizopus spp. sporangiospores have an irregular walnut shape.

Aspergilllus niger

Rhizopus spp. 

Penicillium spp. with Rhizopus spp. sporangiospores and Aspergillus niger conidia.