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Fruiting of some light-requiring fungi as influenced by cellophane

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Cellophane film overlying agar media enabled dark fruiting in two fungi (Phoma sp. andAscochyta pisi Lib.), fruiting in light on Czapek’s agar in two other fungi [Phoma sorghina (Sacc).] Boeremaet al andLeptosphaerulina crassiasca (Sechet) (Jackson and Bell)] and increased fruiting in all the four fungi. The fungal hyphae branched more profusely on cellophane. The role of cellophane in the induction of fruiting in these fungi is discussed.

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  1. Centre for Advanced Study in Botany, University of Madras, 600 005, Madras, India

    T S Suryanarayanan & R N Swamy

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Part of the first author’s doctoral thesis, University of Madras, 1978.

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Suryanarayanan, T.S., Swamy, R.N. Fruiting of some light-requiring fungi as influenced by cellophane. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 90, 137–142 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03167736

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