(n.) A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.
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Mycelium
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(n.) The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn.
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(1) It was shown that the levels of ATP and ADP in the mycelium depended on the carbon source: the maximum and minimum ATP concentrations were found on the glucose and acetate media respectively, the maximum and minimum ADP concentrations showed inverse dependence.
(2) In other slowly growing mycobacteria, M. tuberculosis, M. bovis, M. kansasii, M. scrofulaceum, M. gordonae, M. marinum and M. nonchromogenicum, such mycelium formation was not observed.
(3) Extraction of mycelium or walls of Micropolyspora faeni with cold or hot aqueous phenol yielded a lipopolysaccharide consisting of lipid A, phosphate, galactose, arabinose, glucose, glucosamine, and a dideoxy sugar.
(4) The mycelium of Trichoderma viride grown in the dark under submerged conditions and transferred to membrane filters sporulated only after photoinduction.
(5) To isolate single spores from adhesive ascospores and the mycelium, the suspension was sucked through a combination of sintered-glass plates with different pore sizes.
(6) The enzyme was obtained from the mycelium of Actinomyces lavendulae.
(7) The effect was observed for other organisms but notably L. trabea, which produced considerable enzyme from a small quantity of mycelium.
(8) It lost about 80 per cent of the initial activity at a concentration of KC1 equal to 1.0 M. The molecular mass of the enzyme from the mycelium of Act.
(9) The authors observed maximum simultaneous biosynthesis of antibiotic and pigment in the microphilic fungus with using 48-hour seed mycelium having the specific growth rate of 0.008-0.011 h-1 in an amount of 5-7 per cent (v).
(10) Depending upon growth temperature, Candida albicans can exhibit two different morphologies, a budding yeast or a mycelium.
(11) The other major soluble carbohydrate of the sporophore, trehalose, decreased throughout the growth of the sporophore; a parallel decrease was observed in the mycelium.
(12) The cytochrome composition of the culture was not affected by the age of the mycelium, the intensity of antimycin A production, or differences in the media.
(13) Wheat kernels with visible Fusarium-damage, naturally infected, have been examined with histochemical techniques to observe mycelium growth inside kernels and change in kernels cells.
(14) Ultrastructure of basidiospores and mycelium of Lenzites saepiaria.
(15) In nongrowing cells (ungerminated sporangiospores and stationary-phase mycelium), the profile was skewed toward lower densities with a sharp chitosome peak at d = 1.12-1.13.
(16) Metabolism of carbohydrates was studied in Penicillium chrysogenum 194 and in its inactive mutant growing on a defined medium, and also in the washed mycelium of these cultures.
(17) Our previous work indicated that MY1049 was able to grow and produce abundant mycelium in the renal calices of infected mice but that the strain was unable to invasively colonize the renal tissue.
(18) However, further development of the mycelium was inhibited.
(19) These changes were correlated to the decrease of the ratio of saturated to olefinic fatty acids in the mycelium, suggesting that alcohols and other polar lipophilic compounds can interfere with the biosynthesis and the function of the cytoplasmic membrane in Streptomyces.
(20) The mycelium contained up to 38% of a slightly branched, storage (1----3),(1----6)-beta-D-glucan with a MW of 20,000.