1994 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Distribution and Metabolism of Citrinin: A Review
Authors : Bonnie B. Dunn, Leonard Friedman
Published in: Mycotoxins, Wood Decay, Plant Stress, Biocorrosion, and General Biodeterioration
Publisher: Springer US
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Citrinin was first isolated by Hetherington and Raistrick in 1931 from a culture filtrate of Penicillium Thom. Other species of Penicillium as well as several species of Aspergillius also produce citrinin (Timonin and Rouatt, 1944; Krogh et al., 1970; Mislivec and Tuite, 1970; Ito et al., 1973; Pohland and Mislivec, 1976; Stoloff, 1976; Nelson et al., 1980; Mislivec, 1981). It is a potentially important mycotoxin; it had been found as a natural contaminant of peanuts (Diener, 1960), corn (Mislivec and Tuite, 1970), rice (Saito et al., 1971); wheat, rye, barley, and oats in Canada (Scott et al., 1972); barley and oats in Denmark (Krogh et al., 1973); naturally rotted apples containing Penicillium expansum (Harwig et al., 1973); and Indian groundnuts infected with A.flavus.P.citrinum and A.terreus (Subrahmanyam and Rao, 1974).