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Structure and plugging of septa of wild type and spreading colonial mutants of Neurospora crassa

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    The structure and plugging of septa of several Neurospora crassa strains were studied.

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    Septa were occluded by an electron dense plug. Woronin bodies were never observed.

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    Nearly all the septa found within the peripheral 0.5 to 1.0 mm of colonies of spco 12 were plugged but plugged septa were never observed in cot 3 and only rarely in spco 4, even 11 mm from the colony's circumference.

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    Lines of vesicles were observed in the cytoplasm and traversing the septal pores of spco 1 hyphae. The mean diameter of these vesicles and the vesicles found at the hyphal tip were identical.

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  1. Microbiology Department, Queen Elizabeth College, Campden Hill, London, England

    A. P. J. Trinci & Annette J. Collinge

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Trinci, A.P.J., Collinge, A.J. Structure and plugging of septa of wild type and spreading colonial mutants of Neurospora crassa . Archiv. Mikrobiol. 91, 355–364 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00425054

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