Mass Culture of a Slime Mold, Physarum polycephalum
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Mass Culture of a Slime Mold, Physarum Polycephalum.
The slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, was cultivated in a soluble natural medium in shake flasks and in 30-liter and 50-gal conventional baffled fermentors. Yields of 6 to 10 g (dry weight) per liter were obtained in the large-scale fermentations. Because of the slow growth of the myxomycete, particular attention had to be paid to aseptic technique. The inability of this organism to withstand ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied Microbiology
سال: 1964
ISSN: 0003-6919
DOI: 10.1128/am.12.2.161-164.1964