Article
Extracellular enzyme production by Rhizopus and Mucor species on solid media
Canadian Journal of Microbiology
(1984)
Abstract
Solid media were employed to determine the presence and absence of extracellular enzyme production by two genera of fruit-rot fungi, Rhizopus and Mucor. The results of this investigation revealed that phosphatase was released into the cultural medium by all the fungi examined; however, only R. oryzae, R. tritici, M. mucedo, and M. piriformis showed the possibility of being high producers of the enzyme. Protease, urease, ribonuclease, pectate lyase, and polygalacturonase, at varying levels of activity, were detected, in the majority of the fungi, in the cultural medium.
Disciplines
- Biology and
- Microbiology
Publication Date
January, 1984
DOI
10.1139/m84-020
Citation Information
D P Thompson and Broderick Eribo. "Extracellular enzyme production by Rhizopus and Mucor species on solid media" Canadian Journal of Microbiology Vol. 30 Iss. 1 (1984) p. 126 - 128 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/broderick-eribo/5/