{"id":65928,"date":"2012-10-19T12:39:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T15:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=65928"},"modified":"2012-12-19T12:42:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:42:45","slug":"new-fungus-in-the-brazil-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/new-fungus-in-the-brazil-nut\/","title":{"rendered":"New fungus in the Brazil Nut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_65933\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65933\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_200-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_200-8.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_200-8-250x122.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/014-017_Tecnociencia_200-8-120x58.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">JOHN PITT\u2002E L\u00c9O RAMOS<\/span><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Brazil nut fungus: Aspergillus does not produce aflaxtoxins<span class=\"media-credits\">JOHN PITT\u2002E L\u00c9O RAMOS<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new species of fungus was discovered in the Brazil nut. Named <em>Aspergillus bertholletius<\/em> in reference to the scientific name for the Brazil nut (<em>Bertholletia excelsa<\/em>), the microorganism was identified and described by researchers from Brazil, Europe, the United States and Australia (August 2012 issue of <em>Plos One<\/em>). The species does not produce aflaxtoxin, a type of substance that can be carcinogenic in high amounts. It does, however, produce the compound O-Methylsterigmatocystin, a precursor to the aflaxtoxins.\u00a0 \u201cThis characteristic may help us to better understand the aflaxtoxin biosynthetic pathway and provide parameters for controlling this toxin that has been detected in Brazil nuts,\u201d says Marta H. Taniwaki, of the Food Technology Institute of Campinas, one of the study\u2019s authors.\u00a0 According to the researcher, the discovery of the new species attests to the great biodiversity of fungus found in Brazil, particularly in the Amazon region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new species of fungus was discovered in the Brazil nut","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[209,213],"coauthors":[93],"class_list":["post-65928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-biology","tag-botany"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65928"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=65928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}