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Cellulolysis rates of four cereal foot-rot fungi were estimated by dry-weight loss (wl) of filter-paper cultures incubated for 7 weeks at 22·5°C. Fungal growth rate across the paper circles was recorded and was found to be correlated with the product of\(\sqrt {WL} \) of paper multiplied by fungal growth rate overpd agar; the correlation was significant at 1% level.
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Garrett, S.D. Factors controlling growth rate of cellulolytic fungi on sterile filter-paper. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 93, 189–194 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03053075
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