Physarum polycephalum cultivation

Cultivation of the plasmodium of myxomycetes in a practical scale has been known only for very limited species. Physarum polycephalum may be the most familiar species of myxomycetes because of the ease with which its plasmodium may be grown in the laboratory. It has been therefore used extensively in physiological, biochemical, and genetic studies as well as in schools for model organisms. Mass culture of the plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum... 

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