A green house experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of arbuscular mycorrhiza inoculation on plant growth and uptake of mineral nutrition in Ipomoea aquatica considering the objective of using environmental friendly biofertilizer instead of chemical fertilizer. A common leafy vegetable plant Ipomoea aquatica was grown with mycorrhiza and without mycorrhiza for 42 days. After harvest...

I t has been known for some time that Penicillium citrinum Thom when grown on suitable media produces a characteristic lemon yellow colour. Thus Thom in his monograph on “ Cultural Studies of species of 1910), says, “ P. citrinum produces a lemon yellow colour, soluble in alcohol, in media containing sugars, milk, gelatin, bread and potato.” This colouring matter was not isolated, however, nor ...

In the following paper an account is given of the investigation of the metabolic products formed from glucose by various species of fungi belonging to different genera. These species were chosen for investigation since the carbon balance sheets prepared for them, when grown on Czapek-Dox glucose solution, indicated that each of them gives rise to considerable quantities of some metabolic produc...