When he heard about the Chobani recall after reports of people becoming sick from yogurt contaminated with Mucor circinelloides we thought the M. circinelloides strain could cause more serious problems than one might think. says Soo Chan Lee of Duke university an author on the study.
Using a technique known as multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) they identified the strain as Mucor circinelloides f. circinelloides (Mcc.
The blight, Phytophthora infestans, is considered now a water mold, more closely related to the malaria parasite. It thrives in cool,
is in fact a water mold that thrives in cold, wet weather and can wipe out a crop in days.
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