Aircraft components fungi???

[Guy Tremblay]

In the ATCC collection of filamentous fungi catalogue, more precisely in the Strains 
with Special Applications Section there is an application that is bugging me. This is 
the application:

Aircraft components
     testing
        Aspergillus flavus
                    "       niger
                    "       ustus
                    "       versicolor
         Chaetomium globosum
         Fusarium monoliform
etc...

What is this about? Are these fungi that like to take the plane (Hey, I met Rusty the 
fungi in a 747 back from Jakarta)? Or are they simply organisms used for airplanes 
testing? If so, what for exactly?

  	
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