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Liquid nitrogen storage of yeast cultures. II. Stability of characteristics of stored strains

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Nineteen strains of yeasts possessing different characteristics were stored in liquid nitrogen and after 5 years phenotypic characters were evaluated and compared with equivalent strains preserved under paraffin oil. All qualitative characters tested remained stable, and quantitative characters varied only within the range of natural variability.

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  1. Centre of Research in Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 842 38, Bratislava, CSSR

    Anna Kocková-Kratochvílová & Z. Hubálek

  2. Institute of Parasitology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 166 32, Valtice, CSSR

    Anna Kocková-Kratochvílová & Z. Hubálek

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Kocková-Kratochvílová, A., Hubálek, Z. Liquid nitrogen storage of yeast cultures. II. Stability of characteristics of stored strains. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 49, 571–578 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399850

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