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Comparative analysis of germination of asexual sporulation spores (conidia and sporangiospores) and of specific features of dormancy release was carried out for ascomycete mycelial fungi Aspergillus tamarii VKM F-64 and A. sydowii VKM F-441, as well as for zygomycete fungi Cunninghamella echinulata VKM F-663 and Umbelopsis ramanniana VKM F-582. The spores of these strains were shown to be in a state of exogenous dormancy and differed in lag phase duration and germination rate, which depended on the presence of nutrients in the medium. Only the strain C. echinulata VKM F-663 exhibited 100% spore germination, with the germination rate and lag phase duration not depending on the composition of the medium. While in A. tamarii strain VKM F-64, the total number of spores germinating on rich and poor media was also almost the same, in the absence of nutrients lag phase duration increased and the germination rate decreased. For strains U. ramanniana VKM F-582 and A. sydowii VKM F-441, the degree of spore germination in the absence of nutrients in the medium was considerably lower than on the rich medium, while the lag phase was longer. These data indicate that the spores of C. echinulata VKM F-663 are in the state of exogenous dormancy, which does not require for release any compounds except water. The spores of U. ramanniana strain VKM F-582 and of the Aspergillus strains exhibited another variant of exogenous dormancy, which required for release, apart from water, also the sources of carbon and nitrogen. Thus, the character of dormancy release may differ even within a single genus (Aspergillus).
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Original Russian Text © I.S. Mysyakina, G.A. Kochkina, N.E. Ivanushkina, D.A. Bokareva, E.P. Feofilova, 2016, published in Mikrobiologiya, 2016, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 269–274.
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Mysyakina, I.S., Kochkina, G.A., Ivanushkina, N.E. et al. Germination of spores of mycelial fungi in relation to exogenous dormancy. Microbiology 85, 290–294 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261716030085
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