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Five hundred isolates of different xerophilic and non-xerophilic fungi belonging to 10 genera and 74 species were screened for alditol (sugar alcohol) accumulation. Ninety-two of the isolates failed to grow on a salt medium, most of the isolates (408) produced alditols; 348,44 and 16 of them produced low, moderate and high levels of alditols, respectively. The high alditol producers belonged to five species ofAspergillus, six species ofEurotium andFennellia flavipes. Glycerol andd-mannitol were the main constituents of alditol pools of the 16 high alditol producers.d-Arabinitol andmeso-erythritol were also formed but at low concentrations by several of the tested isolates.
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El-Kady, I.A., Moubasher, M.H. & Mostafa, M.E. Accumulation of sugar alcohols by filamentous fungi. Folia Microbiol 40, 481–486 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02814727
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