Survey of productivity of tremorgenic mycotoxin, verruculogen by Eupenicillium spp.

Abstract

The productivities of tremorgenic mycotoxins in EtOAc extracts of moldy rice inoculated artificially with 45 strains of 40 species of Eupenicillium were examined. By intraperitoneal injection to mice, extracts of five species were found to be tremorgenic: E. angustiporcatum, E. crustaceum, E. lapidosum, E. tularense and Eupenicillium sp. Verruculogen was detected in the extracts of E. crustaceum, E. tularense and Eupenicillium sp. by TLC analysis.