ISSN:
1572-9699
Keywords:
Arachidonic acid
;
isolation
;
Mortierella
;
soil
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Abstract Malt extract agar and an incubation temperature of 5 °C were used to selectively isolate representatives of the genus Mortierella from soil. Fungi in a soil sample from mountain grassland able to grow under these conditions, amounted to a total of 2640 colony forming units per gram soil. Circa 94% of the total fungal isolates represented Mortierella subgenus Mortierella. The rest of the colony-forming units consisted of Mucor isolates (6.0%) and higher fungi (1.5%). All the Mortierella isolates produced arachidonic acid.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1001848709005
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