(n.) The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Sclerotium
Definition:
(n.) A hardened body formed by certain fungi, as by the Claviceps purpurea, which produces ergot.
(n.) The mature or resting stage of a plasmodium.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three isolates of Gliocladium virens (G1, G2 and G3) and two of Trichoderma longibrachiatum (T1 and T2) were screened against isolates of three soilborne plant pathogens namely Rhizoctonia solani, Sclerotium rolfsii and Pythium aphanidermatum.
(2) Conditions for obtaining stable protoplasts from Sclerotium glucanicum and their reversion to hyphal growth were determined.
(3) Some effects of light on morphogenesis in Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc.
(4) The appearance of beta-1,3-glucanases in supernatants of Sclerotium glucanicum cultures was followed by SDS-PAGE and shown to be dependent on cultivation time.
(5) The intracellular spaces of the cortex tissue form a continuous system which is apparently instrumental in mediating communication between the growing sclerotium and the external milieu.
(6) Group controlled mechanism for production of carbohydrases by Sclerotium rolfsii is suggested.
(7) The hydrolysis of purified celluloses (cotton, Avicel, Cellulose-123, Solka Floc SW40) and cellulosic wastes (rice straw, sugarcane bagasse, wood powders, paper factory effluents) by Sclerotium rolfsii CPC 142 culture filtrate was studied.
(8) Lipid reserves in the sclerotium provided the principal carbon and energy source, and the nutrients required for stomatal growth appeared to be provided by the sclerotial tissues immediately beneath the point of attachment of the stoma.
(9) A light-stimulated increase in beta-1,3 glucan accumulation was observed for Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc.
(10) The total level of free amino acids drops with proceeding development of the sclerotium.
(11) Enzyme stability studies in case of Sclerotium rolfsii UV-8 mutant have been investigated under the conditions used for saccharification of cellulose (50 degrees C, pH 4.5, 48 h).
(12) The growth of Sclerotium rolfsii and Whetzelinia sclerotiorum was reduced when 5 X 10(-4) to 2 X 10(-3) M 1-phenyl-2-thiourea (PTU) was incorporated into synthetic media and potato dextrose agar (PDA).
(13) The metabolites of the Canadian tuckahoe, the sclerotium of Polyporus tuberaster, have been investigated.
(14) The dominant fungi of shells of windrowed fruit included Chaetomium, Rhizoctonia, Fusarium, Sclerotium, and Alternaria.
(15) vasinfectum, Fusarium solani, Rhizoctonia solani, and Sclerotium bataticola.
(16) A lysosomal system was demonstrated in hyphal tip cells of Sclerotium rolfsii by light and electron microscopy observations of the sites of acid phosphatase activity visualized by a modified Gomori lead nitrate method.
(17) In a parasitic culture, proline is probably supplied in sufficient amounts by the host plant and the main difference between the metabolism of fungal sphacelium and sclerotium is a different utilisation of acetyl-CoA.
(18) Respiration and respiratory enzymes of Rhizoctonia solani and Sclerotium bataticola.
(19) Metabolic products of Aspergillus flavus Link had a toxigenic effect upon Sclerotium bataticola Maub., decreasing its radial expansion and dry weight and enhancing sclerotial production.
(20) Sclerotium rolfsii produced unusual patterns of aerial mycelia and no sclerotia on media containing 2 X 10(-3) M PTU.