Mold, black bread

Rhizopus nigricans (Mucor stolonifer), commonly known as Black Mold or Black Bread Mold, is frequently found on bread, jellies, syrups, acetic pharmaceutical extracts and other substrata, where it forms a dense thready mycelium bearing numerous black tiny spore cases. The source of this mold is the spores, which are found in the air or water with which the attacked substratum is... 

Over 100 years ago, Raulin (1869) demonstrated that zinc was necessary for the growth of a black bread mold, Aspergillus niger. Subsequently, the essentiality of zinc was established for highly developed plant life (Sommer and Lipman 1926), and animals (Todd et al. 1934). 

Common Names the Black Pin Mold the Black Bread Mold... 

Rhizopus stolonifer. the black bread mold, is also utilized in the commerical production of fu-maric acid and cortisone. Other species in the genus secrete assorted alcohols and acids as metabolic waste products. 

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