STUDIES ON SPORE GERMINATION I

Studies on spore germination: its independence from alanine racemase activity.

The demonstration in the past few years that simple nutrients are sufficient to enable a rapid germination of spores from aerobic bacteria has stimulated an interest in the biochemical reactions involved. Glucose, adenosine, and certain amino acids, added singly or in combination, were found by a number of workers to be sufficient to lead to over 90 per cent germination of spores from a number ...

Tissue Sap on Spore Germination

Physiological Studies on Spore Germination with Special Reference to Clostridium botulinum: I. Development of a Quantitative Method.

By far the majority of studies hitherto made on germination of bacterial spores have employed the appearance of visible turbidity as the criterion of germination. Obviously this technique can reveal no quantitative characteristics of the germination process and is therefore of value only in establishing that some germination does or does not take place. Even here its value may be questioned, si...

Ecophysiology of Development: Spore Germination

Ecophysiology of Development: Spore Germination