Some factors affecting carbon dioxide metabolism in neurospora crassa.

Although the role of carbon dioxide in metabolism has been examined in an extensive variety of animal and plant tissues (l), especially in microorganisms (2), to the authors’ knowledge the literature is devoid of any such references for Neurospora. This mold is particularly appropriate for such studies in view of the many well known mutants of diverse metabolic potentialities which might reveal unsuspected patterns of carbon dioxide utilization and distribution. The present report details some of the factors involved in carbon dioxide assimilation by wild type Neurospora crassa.