Her first short story featuring William to be published was "Rice Mould", published in Home Magazine in 1919.

Also in the mid-1950s Umezawa discovered kasugamycin, a compound useful in combating rice molds.

It is also known by the names ang-khak rice mold, corn silage mold, maize silage mold, and rice kernel discoloration.

The red yeast rice mold Monascus purpureus, creates lovastatin, mevastatin, and the simvastatin precursor monacolin J. Zaragozic acids were isolated from ascomycota fungi.

Wheat rusts, rice molds, corn blights, hog choleras, poultry enteritises, fountained into the indifferent air from the hidden laboratories, or were loosed far aloft, in the jet- stream, by rocketing fleets.

Nigerose, also known as sakebiose, is an unfermentable sugar obtained by partial hydrolysis of nigeran, a polysaccharide found in black mold, but is also readily extracted from the dextrans found in rice molds and many other fermenting microorganisms, such as L. mesenteroides.