which was accompanied by the release of a fragrant smell. The orange hue created by the isolate C11 confirms the production of secondary metabolites. The perithecial hairs appear and become morenumerous and darker on the older cultures (Fig. 1c). This fungus was identified based on the analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the nuclear ribosomal ITS1-5.8-ITS2 region (630 bp amplicon). The analysis of DNA sequence similarity among sequences lodged in GenBank revealed that the ITS region of C11 have a 97% homology to that of C. globosum reference strains (GenBank accession numbers KJ472923).