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Streptomycetes are morphologically among the most complex of bacteria: they grow as a branching mycelium, and characteristically they reproduce by the formation of chains of uninucleoidal spores from specialized aerial hyphae. The formation of aerial hyphae often coincides with antibiotic production and the occurrence of various pleiotropic mutants defective in both processes shows that the study of morphological differentiation may prove relevant to the fermentation industry.
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Chater, K.F. (1991). Introduction. In: Baumberg, S., Krügel, H., Noack, D. (eds) Genetics and Product Formation in Streptomyces. Federation of European Microbiological Societies Symposium Series, vol 55. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5922-7_1
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