Fungi utilization

Enzymes. Since both bacteria and fungi utilize enzymes to degrade the pit membrane in wood, it is not surprising that treatment with isolated enzymes produces similar effects. This was shown to be the case by Nicholas and Thomas (26) using cellulase, hemi-cellulase and pectinase. Similar results were subsequently obtained by other researchers (62, 63, 64, 65). ... 

Abuzinadah, R. A., and Read, D. J. (1988). Amino acids as nitrogen sources for ectomycorrhizal fungi. Utilization of individual amino acids. Trans. Br. MycoL Sac. 91,473-479. 

During pre-composting mesophilic bacteria and fungi, utilizing available carbohydrates, attack... 

A wide variety of bacteria and fungi utilize hydroxamates (Figure 2) to sequester iron from their environment. Formation of the ferric complex from these chelating groups requires the... 

Not all fungi utilize nitrate nitrogen and the capacity to assimilate nitrate for growth has been used as a taxonomic determinant. However, there seems to be no evolutionary distribution since the ability to utilize nitrate nitrogen is observed in the primitive as well as advanced types (Payne, 1973). 

Using techniques previously described, Barath et al. classified the antibiotics from crude concentrates of fermentation media and from the mycelia of 50 strains of soil fungi. Utilizing the systematic PC methods with bioautographic techniques against Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida pseudotropicalis, the antibiotics were grouped into a series of classes which permitted the authors to choose strains that produced antibiotics with specific activities. 

Two different pathways for the biosynthesis of lysine have been discovered. Fungi utilize a route through a-aminoadipic acid bacteria and blue-green algae utilize a route through diaminopimelic acid. 

All three of these are dermatophytes, i.e. filamentous fungi which can utilize keratin for their nutrition. Keratin is the chief protein in skin, hair and nail. Hence, all of these organisms are responsible for superficial mycoses in mammals. It is often stated that dermatophytes are the only fungi to have evolved which rely upon infection for then-own survival. This mistaken belief results from a view which is too human-centred and neglects, for example, the presence of symbiotic fungi in the stomachs of ruminants. 

B. Utilization of Soil Carbon Compounds by Mycorrhizal Fungi... 

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