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CULTURE OF STEMONITIS FUSCA ON GLASS
Author(s) -
McManus Mary Annunciata
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1961.tb11684.x
Subject(s) - biology , type (biology) , botany , morphology (biology) , phase contrast microscopy , optics , zoology , ecology , physics
M c M anus , S ister M ary A nnunciata , R.S.M. (Mt. Mercy Coll., Cedar Rapids, Iowa.) Culture of Stemonitis fusca on glass . Amer. Jour. Bot. 48(7): 582–588. Illus. 1961.—The plasmodium of Stemonitis fusca differs in morphology from the type which has been considered characteristic of all Myxomycetes. It lacks the dense granules which are numerous in the physaraceous plasmodium and is, therefore, delicate and transparent, becoming macroscopically visible only when it is about to fruit. It never forms the thick, fleshly fan which is characteristic of the physaraceous type. A simplified method of culture on glass has been developed, which permits excellent visualization of the stages of the life cycle under high magnification and by phase‐contrast illumination.