Use of a series of chemostat cultures to isolate 'improved' variants of the Quorn mycoprotein fungus, Fusarium graminearum A3/5.

doi:10.1099/13500872-140-11-3015

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Use of a series of chemostat cultures to isolate 'improved' variants of the Quorn mycoprotein fungus, Fusarium graminearum A3/5.

Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Nov 1994

Wiebe M G, Robson G D, Oliver S G, Trinci A P

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Variants (designated A23-S and A24-S) of the Quorn myco-protein fungus, Fusarium graminearum A3/5 were isolated from a series of glucose-limited cultures grown at a dilution rate of 0.18 h-1 for a combined total of 109 d. These variants had unchanged mycelial morphologies but, when grown in mixed...

Topics

Cycloheximide
Drug Resistance, Microbial
Fungal Proteins
Fusarium
Genetic Variation
Microbiological Techniques
Mutation
Selection, Genetic

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