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Bioscience Methods 2017, Vol.8, No.2, 18-30
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Table 4 Morphological characteristics and suspected fungi organism isolated from freshly produced snack before packaging
S/N Growth Rate Diameter of Colony
after 7-14 days
Initial Colour Hyphae Conidiophore Suspected Organism
1 fast growing 2-20 mm in 7 days grey or light olive grey to brownish grey upright phialiade forming clusters branched from
phialiade
Mucor plumbeus
2 fast growing 2-20 mm in 7 days Whitish becoming greyish brown upright phialiade forming clusters branched from
phialiade
Rhizopus stolonifer
3 fast growing 6-20 mm in 7 days white to deep blackish green upright phialiade forming clusters branched from
phialiade
Alternaria tenuissima
4 fast growing 2-20 mm in 7 days white to brown then black upright phialiade forming clusters branched from
phialiade
Aspergillus niger
5 fast growing 2-20 mm in 7 days white to yellowish tarnishing into pink upright phialiade cylindrical or spherical with a size of
4-62 mm in diameter
Fusarium solani
6 slow growing 2-5 mm in 7 days yellow green to pale blue green upright phialiade clusters branched out from phialiade Penicillium
chrisogenum
7 fast growing 7-20 mm in 7 days white to dark green upright phialiade clusters branched out from phialiade Trichoderma
longibrachiatum
8 slow growing 2-5 mm in 7 days white to cream to yellow no hyphae growth form is smooth blastophores are form oval to squat to
cylindrical
Yeast Candida sake