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[Variability of Bacillus thuringiensis under various growth conditions].
Mikrobiologiia - 1 Jan 2000
Blokhina T P, Sakharova Z V, Ignatenko Iu N, Rabotnova I L, Rautenshteĭn Ia I
Abstract excerpt
When a lysogenic culture of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. galleriae 69-6 was grown under the batch conditions, 93-99% of cells in the population produced R-form colonies and ca. 1% yielded S-form colonies. The amount of spore-forming cells was 99% in R-variants and 8% in S-variants. The quantity of S-variants rose abruptly to 99% when the culture was grown under the chemostat conditions. The number of S-variants...
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