Premium
A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CELL WALL STRUCTURE AND COLONIAL GROWTH IN NEUROSPORA CRASSA
Author(s) -
Terra Noël,
Tatum E. L.
Publication year - 1963
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.1537-2197.1963.tb12241.x
Subject(s) - neurospora crassa , biology , crassa , neurospora , cell wall , mutant , glucosamine , sugar , morphology (biology) , botany , biochemistry , genetics , gene
de Terra, Noël, and E. L. Tatum. (Rockefeller Inst., New York, N. Y.) A relationship between cell wall structure and colonial growth in Neurospora crassa . Amer.Jour. Bot. 50(7): 669–677. Illus. 1963.—Cell walls were isolated from morphological mutants of Neurospora crassa and from their corresponding wild‐type strains. Acid hydrolysates prepared from these cell walls were then studied, qualitatively and quantitatively, with respect to their reducing sugar content. Paper chromatography revealed the presence of glucose and glucosamine in the cell walls of all strains studied. Quantitative analysis has shown that a group of 4 colonial mutants which strongly resemble each other in morphology all have significantly less glucose and more glucosamine per unit weight of cell wall than do their corresponding wild‐type strains. These data strongly suggest that a particular type of morphological aberration in Neurospora is associated with similar changes in cell wall composition.