Random subsets of a modest-sized microbial collection have been examined for culture redundancy, initially by morphology, both to the naked eye and microscopically, of cultures grown on a variety of agar-based solid media. Subsequent analysis, by simple TLC, of the extractable metabolites produced by morphologically similar cultures grown in submerged shaken fermentation was carried out. Appare...

The utilization of various carbohydrates by species of streptomyces has been suggested by Pridham and Gottlieb (1948), Kurosawa (1951), and Benedict et al. (1955) as an aid in differentiation of species. While the latter investigators have reported that streptomycin-producing strains of Streptomyces griseus will grow on synthetic agar media containing as sole carbon source mannitol, xylose, fru...

Respiratory activities were compared among rice seedlings germinated in air for 6 days (aerobic seedlings), those germinated under water for 5 days (submerged seedlings), and those grown in air for 1 day after 5 days' submerged germination (air-adapted seedlings). The respiratory activity of the submerged seedlings increased rapidly on transfer to air and reached a plateau at 16 hours in air. R...

Gelatinase activity was detectable in the culture filtrates of 13 of 14 species of marine fungi tested. The fungi were grown under conditions of submerged culture in a medium consisting of corn meal, soybean meal, and CaCO(3). The degree of enzymatic activity did not necessarily correlate with the amino nitrogen content of the filtrates. Eight of the filtrates contained measurable quantities of...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Submergence and de-submergence are common phenomena encountered by riparian plants due to water level fluctuations, but little is known about the role of physiological integration in clonal plants (resource sharing between interconnected ramets) in their adaptation to such events. Using Alternanthera philoxeroides (alligator weed) as an example, this study tested the hypothe...

AMBEKAR, G. R. (Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd., Pimpri, India), S. B. THADANI, AND V. M. DOCTOR_ Production of calcium gluconate by Penicillium chrysogenum in submerged culture. Appl. Microbiol. 13:713-719. 1965.-The waste mycelium of Penicillium chrysogenum HA-10 (obtained at the end of penicillin fermentation), or a 24hr-old freshly grown vegetative inoculum of this organism, was found to utilize...

in the present study, 110 fungal strains of persian type culture collection (ptcc) including some selected strains isolated in various screening projects were tested for their potentiality to produce lovastatin, a competitive inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coa reductase (hmg-coa reduc-tase), the rate-limiting enzyme of cholesterol biosynthesis. the fungal strains were cultivated in a t...