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Rhizomucor miehei

species of fungus

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ3013240 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rhizomucor miehei (also: Mucor miehei ) is a species of fungus. It is commercially used to produce enzymes which can be used to produce a microbial rennet to curd milk and produce cheese.

Under experimental conditions, this species grows particularly well at temperatures between 24 and 55°C, and their growth becomes negligible below 21°C or above 57°C.

It is also used to produce lipases for interesterification of fats.

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“Rhizomucor miehei” enters the record as species of fungus. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rhizomucor, miehei and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rhizomucor miehei” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.