{"id":11862,"date":"2026-05-19T06:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/primerjava-proizvodnje-lovastatina-citrinina-in-pigmentov-pri-razlicnih-sevih-glive-monascus-purpureus-gojenih-na-rizu-in-prosu\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:56:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T09:56:58","slug":"comparison-of-lovastatin-citrinin-and-pigment-production-of-different-monascus-purpureus-strains-grown-on-rice-and-millet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/comparison-of-lovastatin-citrinin-and-pigment-production-of-different-monascus-purpureus-strains-grown-on-rice-and-millet\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of lovastatin, citrinin and pigment production of different Monascus purpureus strains grown on rice and millet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Six <em>Monascus purpureus<\/em> (red mould) strains were cultivated on brown rice and millet as substrates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">They underwent strain selection for high lovastatin and pigment production, and low citrinin mycotoxin production, with particular reference to potential for millet as substrate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For most of these strains, substrate dry matter loss was 54\u201360% on rice and 46\u201348% on millet, although the \u2018MOPU GS1\u2019 strain showed 18% and 17% dry matter loss, respectively. \u2018MOPU GS1\u2019 was also the only strain with detectable levels of lovastatin (1.3 and 1.6 mg lovastatin\/g substrate dry weight [dw], respectively) and citrinin under the limit of detection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the other strains, citrinin varied from 0.3 to 18.2 mg\/g substrate dw. Among the six strains, \u2018EBY3\u2019 provided high pigment production when grown on rice, although it produced 1.1 mg citrinin\/g substrate dw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Millet showed good potential as an alternative substrate to rice, due to higher lovastatin and lower citrinin production; however, rice was the better substrate for production of <em>M. purpureus<\/em> pigments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Monascus purpureus (red mould) strains were cultivated on brown rice and millet as substrates. They underwent strain selection for high lovastatin and pigment production, and low citrinin mycotoxin production, with particular reference to potential for millet as substrate. For most of these strains, substrate dry matter loss was 54\u201360% on rice and 46\u201348% on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1072],"tags":[1534,1533,1539,1532,1535,1538],"class_list":["post-11862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-studies","tag-citrinin","tag-lovastatin","tag-millet","tag-monascus-pupureus","tag-pigment","tag-rice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11862"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12343,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions\/12343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goba.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}