Isolation and characterization of Aspergillus parasiticus mutants with impaired aflatoxin production by a novel tip culture method
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- 1 August 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 54 (8) , 2096-2100
Abstract
A convenient procedure consisting of UV photography (K. Yabe, Y. Ando, M. Ito, and N. Terakado, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 53:230-234, 1987) and a tip culture method has been devised for the isolation and characterization of Aspergillus parasiticus mutants relating to aflatoxin production. With the latter procedure, the production of aflatoxins excreted into the culture medium and precursors in the mycelium were easily measured quantitatively or semiquantitatively. A total of 38 mutants in which the aflatoxigenicity was decreased or lost were obtained by UV radiation; 3 were found to be blocked mutants, which accumulated the aflatoxin precursors versicolorin A or averantin.Keywords
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