For over 100 years, it was assumed that the penicillin-producing mould fungus Penicillium chrysogenum only reproduced asexually through spores. An international research team led by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kuck and Julia Bohm from the Chair of General and Molecular Botany at the Ruhr-Universitat has now shown for the first time that the fungus also has a sexual cycle, i.e. two "genders"......
