Requirement for a growth substrate during lignin decomposition by two wood-rotting fungi.
Decomposition of C-labeled lignin to CO(2) by the lignin-decomposing fungi Phanerochaete chrysosporium and Coriolus versicolor required a growth substrate such as cellulose or glucose. Growth with lignin as sole carbon addition to an otherwise complete medium was negligible.
Kirk
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Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Madison, Wisconsin 53705.
Connors
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Zeikus
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