Occurrence and significance of Fusarium domesticum alias Anticollanti on smear-ripened cheeses

Quite a large number of cheese varieties are characterized by the development of a specific surface microbiota. Practical experience had shown that cheeses with a visible, natural growth of white mould seldom become sticky. Anticollanti, a white mould, often occurred on the surface of nonsticky cheeses, but rarely on cheeses with the defect of sticky smear. The alignment of the nucleotide sequences of the partial 28S rRNA gene that Anticollanti is identical to Trichothecium domesticum CBS 434.34. However, Anticollanti is more closely related to Fusarium dimerum than T roseum which is the type species of the genus Trichothecium. Anticollanti has phialides, unlike Trichothecium, but like Fusarium, and produce conidia like those of F dimerum. We propose that Anticollanti be called F domesticum (Fries: Fries ex Sacc.) Bachmann, comb. nov. Basionym T. domesticum, Sylloge Fungorum 4: 179, 1886. Neotype, designated here, CBS 434.34. (C) 2004 Swiss Society of Food Science and Technology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.