How do highly branched (colonial) mutants of Fusarium graminearum A3/5 arise during Quorn® myco-protein fermentations?

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 525-532

  Wiebe, Marilyn G ^a   Blakebrough, Margaret L ^a   Craig, Sally H ^a   Robson, Geoffrey D ^a   Trinci, Anthony P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorate resistance; Fusarium graminearum; Heterokaryons; Morphological mutants; Nuclear ratios

Indexed keywords

CHLORATE; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; FERMENTATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS MUTANT; FUSARIUM; HETEROKARYON; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA ZEAE;

EID: 0029862902     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-3-525     Document Type: Article

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