title: Leucosporidium fellii sp. nov., a basidiomycetous yeast that degrades L(+)-tartaric acid.
abstract: A new species of basidiomycetous yeast Leucosporidium fellii was isolated from soil in Portugal on a selective L(+)-tartaric acid medium. This yeast is self-sporulating but forms dikaryotic hyphae with clamp connections and is presumably homothallic. It differs from the type strain of Leucosporidium scottii in its life cycle, assimilation pattern and guanine-cytosine content and from the other described Leucosporidium species by additional characteristics.
authors.affiliation: Portuguese Yeast Culture Collection, Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Oeiras, Portugal.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gimenez-Jurado
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Van Uden
mesh_terms: D001487:Basidiomycota / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D003470:Culture Media; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D013644:Tartrates / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D013644:Tartrates; C029768:tartaric acid