Oospore production of Pythium artotrogus

Autor: K. K. Al-Hassan, C. L. Fergus
Rok vydání: 1969
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Zdroj: Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata. 39:273-286
ISSN: 1573-0832
0301-486X
DOI: 10.1007/bf02052791
Popis: The addition of cholesterol, b-sitosterol, stigmasterol and compost infusion to corn meal agar induced marked increases (four-fold) in oospore production, with only a small stimulation of growth rate. Progesterone stimulated oospore production, but inhibited growth. Estrone had no effect on reproduction, but inhibited growth. Testosterone greatly inhibited both growth and reproduction. The optimum concentration of cholesterol for maximum oospore production was 20–100 mg per liter. Growth and oospore production occurred over the initial pH range of 4.5–8.5, and over the temperature range of 12–38°C. Growth occurred at 9°, but no oospores formed. Cholesterol increased the temperature tolerance of the mycelium. Nystatin had no effect on growth or reproduction at 15 mg per liter; filipin and fungichromin completely prevented, and amphotericin B strongly inhibited oospore production at this concentration. Fungichromin was the most inhibitory to growth, filipin was intermediate and amphotericin B only slightly inhibitory. Cholesterol (15 mg/liter) annulled the growth inhibition, but not the inhibition of reproduction. Fluorodeoxyuridine and bromodeoxyuridine inhibited growth and oospore production. Deoxyadenosine had no effect. These experiments indicate that the metabolic processes involved in mycelium synthesis are markedly different from the processes involved in sexual reproduction since they were affected differently by the sterols, antibiotics, and the thymidine analogues.
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