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GLIOTOXIN was first described by Weindling and Emerson1 as a metabolic product of Trichoderma lignorum (Tode) Harz [= T. viride Pers. ex Fries]. Weindling afterwards2, on the advice of C. Thom and M. Timonin, reported that he had described the fungus incorrectly, and that instead it should be identified as a Gliocladium, similar to Gliocladium flmbriatum Gilman and Abbott. I have found that strains of Trichoderma viride produce gliotoxin, and I suggest that it is extremely probable that the fungus used, by Weindling was not G. fimbriatum, but was a Trichoderma as he originally supposed.
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Gilman, J. C., and Abbott, E. V., Iowa State Coll. J. Sci., 1 (3), 225 (1927).
Bisby, G. R., Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc., 23 (2), 149 (1939).
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BRIAN, P. Production of Gliotoxin by Trichoderma viride. Nature 154, 667–668 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154667b0
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