is a filamentous fungus, or mold, that is used in East Asian (particularly Japanese and Chinese) food production, such as in soybean fermentation. A. oryzae is utilized in solid-state cultivation (SSC), which is a form of fermentation in a solid rather than a liquid state. This fungi is essential to the fermentation processes because of its ability to secrete large amounts of various degrading enzymes, which allows it to decompose the proteins of various starches into sugars and amino acids.[1] This fungi is characterized by a round vesicle with extending conodial chains, which appear as white and fluffy strands on the substrate that the fungi inhabits