Glucose and penicillin concentrations in agar medium below fungal colonies |
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Authors: | G D Robson S D Bell P J Kuhn A P Trinci |
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Institution: | Department of Cell and Structural Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. |
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Abstract: | The growth of colonies of Rhizoctonia cerealis and Penicillium chrysogenum on solid media in plate cultures was studied. When grown on defined media containing 10-50 mM-glucose, R. cerealis did not cause a significant reduction in the glucose concentration of the medium in advance of colonization, but did cause the formation of a steep glucose concentration gradient in the substrate below the colony; the medium directly below the centre of a 7 cm diameter colony of R. cerealis was exhausted of glucose even when the fungus was grown on medium containing 50 mM-glucose. Penicillin produced by colonies of P. chrysogenum accumulated in the medium in advance of fungal colonization. For a period up to about 18 d after inoculation, the concentration of penicillin in the medium throughout the plate increased with colony development and thereafter, except at the margins of the plate, decreased. |
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