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PHOTOCHEMISTRY AND PHOTOBIOLOGY
Volume 89, Issue 3, Pages 758-761Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/php.12037
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- OSEO (Maisons-Alfort, France), program Innovation Scientifique et Industrielle [10810001W]
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The photoprotective potential of fungus pigments was investigated by irradiating conidiospores of three Aspergillus niger strains possessing the same genetic background, but differing in their degree of pigmentation with pulsed light (PL) and monochromatic (254nm) UV-C radiation. Spores of A. niger MA93.1 and JHP1.1 presenting, respectively, a fawn and a white pigmentation were more sensitive to PL and continuous UV-C radiation than the wild-type A. niger strain N402 possessing a dark pigment. Both spores of the dark A. niger N402 and the fawn-color mutant were equally resistant to moist heat at 56 degrees C while spores of the white-color mutant were highly sensitive. These results indicate that melanin protects pigmented spores of A. niger from PL.
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