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THE mould Trichoderma viride Pers. ex Fries is generally known to possess marked powers of antagonism to other fungi. It has been previously shown1 that some strains of this mould produce gliotoxin. We have recently found a number of strains which produce another substance, which we propose to name 'viridin', characterized by remarkably high fungistatic activity.
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BRIAN, P., MCGOWAN, J. Viridin: a Highly Fungistatic Substance Produced by Trichoderma viride. Nature 156, 144–145 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156144a0
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