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Fungal Pigments and Their Roles Associated with Human Health [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2020
Fungi can produce myriad secondary metabolites, including pigments. Some of these pigments play a positive role in human welfare while others are detrimental.
Lan Lin, Jianping Xu
exaly   +5 more sources

Safety Evaluation of Fungal Pigments for Food Applications [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2021
Pigments play a major role in many industries. Natural colors are usually much safer when compared to synthetic colors and may even possess some medicinal benefits. Synthetic colors are economical and can easily be produced compared to natural colors. In addition, raw plant materials for natural colors are limited and season dependent.
Laurent Dufossé   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Fungal Pigments and Their Prospects in Different Industries [PDF]

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2019
The public’s demand for natural, eco-friendly, and safe pigments is significantly increasing in the current era. Natural pigments, especially fungal pigments, are receiving more attention and seem to be in high demand worldwide. The immense advantages of fungal pigments over other natural or synthetic pigments have opened new avenues in the market for ...
Laurent Dufossé, Sanjay K Singh
exaly   +5 more sources

Developing fungal pigments for “painting” vascular plants

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2012
The use of fungal pigments as color additives to wood as a method to increase forest revenue is a relatively new, but quickly developing field. Sugar maple (Acer saccharum) is currently the primary utilized hardwood for spalting and appears to be the best suited North American hardwood for such purposes.
Sara C Robinson
exaly   +3 more sources

Chemical characterization and microencapsulation of extracellular fungal pigments

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2022
In this work, extracellular colored metabolites obtained from the filamentous fungi Talaromyces australis and Penicillium murcianum, isolated in the Andean-Patagonian native forests of Chile, were studied as prospect compounds to increase the sustainability of cosmetic products.
Contreras-Machuca, Paulina I.   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Macroscopic Pigmentation in a Dematiaceous Fungal Keratitis

Cornea, 1991
The diagnosis of fungal keratitis can be difficult and is often delayed. The distinction between moniliaceous and dematiaceous (pigmented) keratomycoses is not commonly possible on clinical examination. We report a case of a Curvularia lunata fungal keratitis in a 40-year-old patient who presented with diffuse brown pigmentation throughout the ulcer ...
S T, Berger   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Fungal Pigments: An Overview

2017
Since ages, colors have been an integral part of humankind whether it belongs to foodstuff, clothing, or day-to-day living. Long back in history, various pigments are used by all the races. Earlier the colors that were in use were natural in origin, but due to rise in demand mankind shifted to manufacturing of synthetic colors. With the passage of time,
Gunjan Mukherjee   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Biopigments: Fungal Pigments

2018
Synthetic dyes are frequently used in different fields such as for food industry, paper and agricultural industry and science and technology. But due to the adverse toxicological side effects of synthetic pigments used in the industries, now research is focused on the products from natural resources.
Sharmila Tirumale, Nazir Ahmad Wani
openaire   +1 more source

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