Thermophilic Fungi: An Account of Their Biology, Activities, and ClassificationDuring the war years, 1944 to 1946, the second author (R.E.) had an unusual opportunity to become familiar with almost all the known thermophilic fungi. He was serving as Microbiologist, with Dr. Paul J. Allen, in the Guayule Rubber Extraction Research Unit of the United States Department of Agriculture at Salinas, California. The Microbiology Laboratory was engaged in a detailed investigation of guayule retting, a process in which the rubber-producing shrub, Parthenium argentatum, wass subjected to microbial action in order to yield a rubber of improved quality. |
Contents
Thermophilic Fungi Defined 38 | 3 |
Methods of Isolation and Culture | 8 |
CULTURE DEVELOPMENT MORPHOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS | 15 |
Mucor pusillus and Mucor miehei | 17 |
Talaromyces Penicillium duponti | 28 |
Thermoascus aurantiacus | 39 |
Myriococcum albomyces | 51 |
Chaetomium thermophile vs Anixia spadicea | 62 |
Sporotrichum thermophile | 103 |
Excluded or Doubtful Thermophiles | 105 |
Diagnostic Key | 113 |
GENERAL BIOLOGY AND PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE OF THERMOPHILIC FUNGI | 115 |
Systematic Distribution Temperature Relations and Nat ural Occurrence | 117 |
Humification and Composting Action | 129 |
ADDENDA | 153 |
SUMMARY | 161 |
Humicola insolens and Humicola grisea var thermoidea | 72 |
Humicola stellata and Humicola lanuginosa | 80 |
Torula thermophila | 88 |
Malbranchea pulchella var sulfurea | 93 |
REFERENCES | 167 |
INDEX | 183 |
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