Incidence of Byssochlamys fulva in Queensland-grown canned strawberries

Abstract

Spurgin (1964) reported an outbreak of spoilage in commercially canned strawberries in Queensland. The causative organism was tentatively identified as Byssochlamys fulva (Olliver and Smith 1933) because, although no perfect stage of the fungus was observed, the conidial stage was identical with descriptions of the same stage of B. fulva and tests indicated that ascospores with the same heat resistance as those of B. fulva were in fact present in the material under test.