New colours for old in the blue-cheese fungus Penicillium roqueforti

ARTICLE OPEN New colours for old in the blue-cheese fungus Penicillium roqueforti Matthew M. Cleere 1,2 , Michaela Novodvorska1 , Elena Geib 1 , Jack Whittaker 1 , Heather Dalton 1 , Nadhira Salih1,3 , Sarah Hewitt 1 , Matthew Kokolski 1 , Matthias Brock1 and Paul S. Dyer 1 ✉ Penicillium roqueforti is used worldwide in the production of blue-veined cheese. The blue-green colour derives from pigmented spores formed by fungal growth. Using a combination of bioinformatics, targeted gene...