After subjecting the stems tissues of various plant species
to the VOC’s of M. albus, endophytic fungi appeared on the
Petri plates from a number of the Indonesian plant samples
after 4–7 days. To purify these isolates, hyphal tips were
picked and transferred to PDA plates. Ultimately, many of
these were shown to be isolates of pestalotiopsis, xylaria and
other related ascomyceteous species [3,5]. However, one
fungus was identified that produced odors and survived
repeated exposure to M. albus isolate cz-620 [7]. This isolate
was designated I-41.3s. Like the original isolate of M. albus,
this fungus did not produce spores, had a ropy mycelium [1]
and produced strong characteristic odors. This sterile
odiferous fungus could only be isolated from one plant
out of the 42 that were collected at several locations on the
islands of Sumbawa and Sumatra, Indonesia