POLYOLS IN SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE |
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| Authors: | Donald J Niederpruem Stephen Hunt |
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| Institution: | Department of Microbiology, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis |
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| Abstract: | Sugars and sugar alcohols present in extracts of the wood-rotting mushroom Schizophyllum commune were identified by paper chromatography during fruiting, basidiospore germination, and growth of vegetative mycelium. Homokaryotic fruitbodies and dikaryotic fruits derived from several compatible matings of S. commune contained mannitol and arabitol. Basidiospores shed from dikaryotic fruits also contained mannitol and arabitol while the latter disappeared during spore germination. Vegetative mycelium (strain 699) contained glucose, fructose, mannitol and glycerol while these compounds as well as arabitol occurred in mycelium of strain 845. Polyols are not, therefore, associated exclusively with the sporulation process in S. commune. |
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