⚡ Index-Expert™ #06 — Symptoms and manufacturing defects • DEFAUT_PIGMENTAIRE_TACHES
🔎 Proof & Primary source (idx06:agent-fongique-psychrotolerant-majeur-de-la-moucheture-noire-incr)
Major psychrotolerant ingrained black-spot rind defect fungal agent
Mouchetures et taches circulaires noir olivâtre à noir d'encre pénétrant dans le sous-croûte, impossibles à éliminer au lavage sans parage profond
🧀 3 concerned cheese(s) & family(ies) •
🦠 1 linked living taxon(s)
🌡️ Target physicochemical parameters
Affinage et stockage réfrigéré (2 semaines à 6 mois) • Psychrotolérance (croissance dès 0 °C), HR supérieure à 85 %, condensation sur les parois froides, joints de portes et batteries d'évaporateurs
🛡️ Cellar protocol & prophylaxis
Suppression des ponts thermiques et de la condensation en chambre froide, désinfection fongicide des évaporateurs, filtration de l'air et soins de croûte
🔬 Biochemical & molecular mechanism
Synthèse de dihydroxynaphtalène-mélanine (DHN-mélanine) noire dans la paroi des hyphes et des chaînes de ramoconidies et sécrétion de cladosporine
📚 Specialized INRAE / PubMed / UniProt references
PMID:24778615 🔎 • DOI:10.1111/1541-4337.12069 🔎
🧀 Concerned Cheese Matrices & Designations (3)
Click on any cheese to open its complete relational monograph:
🧀 Comté
Matrice sensible : Agent fongique psychrotolérant majeur de la moucheture noire incrustée de croûte
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🧀 Manchego
Matrice sensible : Agent fongique psychrotolérant majeur de la moucheture noire incrustée de croûte
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🧀 Saint-Nectaire
Matrice sensible : Agent fongique psychrotolérant majeur de la moucheture noire incrustée de croûte
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🦠 Associated NCBI Living Taxa (1)
Species, subspecies and strains linked in the NCBI 2026 taxonomic core:
🔮 Other concepts & symptoms in Symptoms and manufacturing defects
⚡ Halotolerant cheese-brine and slimy ammoniacal smear defect agent
(5🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Red cellar spot (orange-red rind pocking) fungal agent
(5🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Extreme halophilic brine turbidity, slimy smear and putrid off-odor agent
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Arthroconidial yeast-like greasy smear, wrinkled rind and ammoniacal off-odor agent
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Rind swarming, ammoniacal
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Putrid, fecal and barnyard rind off-odor agent
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Late butyric blowing defect agent
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Halotolerant dark-brown powdery rind scab and ammoniacal off-odor fungal agent
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Extreme xerophilic grey-green and yellow-cleistothecial rind mold on aged hard cheeses
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Heterofermentative NSLAB secondary gas-blowing, histamine and pinking defect agent
(3🧀 / 2🦠)
⚡ Halophilic basidiomycetous yeast brine contaminant and chalky-yellow smear defect agent
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Halophilic cheese-brine pellicle, turbidity and brine deacidification yeast agent
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ NSLAB post-acidification, calcium lactate crystal efflorescence and tyramine agent
(3🧀 / 2🦠)
⚡ Salmonellosis foodborne pathogen
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Propionic orange-red spot and late split defect agent
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Halotolerant psychrotrophic floral
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Major co-agent of late butyric blowing defect
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Musty off-odor and slimy rind agent
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Putrescine accumulation agent
(3🧀 / 2🦠)
⚡ Putrid off-odor and putrescine accumulation agent
(4🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Halophilic brine slime, sticky smear and sulfurous-putrid off-odor agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Putrid, ammoniacal
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Putrid-fecal smear off-odor and reddish-brown sub-rind discoloration agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Brine flower (mycodermic film) and solvent off-flavor yeast agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Blue-green mold spot and musty
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Unwanted propionic late blowing and split defect agent in non-eye cheeses
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Cheese brine film-forming and brine deacidification agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Plant-borne coliform early blowing and yellow cortical spot defect agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Waterborne psychrotrophic enteropathogen and proteolytic slime spoilage agent
(2🧀 / 2🦠)
⚡ Extreme xero- and halophilic chocolate-brown rind spot mold and walleminol mycotoxin agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Pink powdery rind mold and bitter trichothecene mycotoxin agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Halotolerant turquoise-green rind mold with reddish exudate on salted
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Halotolerant white chalky rind scab and ammoniacal surface defect fungal agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Major halotolerant rind mold and high-level ochratoxin A (OTA) mycotoxin agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Extremely halotolerant black yeast brine contaminant and dark rind spot agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Psychrotolerant cheese rind spoilage mold and chaetoglobosin mycotoxin agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Psychrotolerant rose-yellow cottony rind rot and enniatin
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Psychrotolerant blue-grey rind spot mold and penicillic acid mycotoxin agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Psychrotolerant dark-green rind spot mold and cyclopiazonic acid mycotoxin agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)
⚡ Psychrotolerant and halotolerant dark blue-green rind spot mold agent
(3🧀 / 1🦠)