Inhibition of Fusarium culmorum by Streptomyces albidoflavus
Abstract
THOUGH soil actinomycetes can sometimes elaborate antibiotics when grown in unamended sterile soil1, it has usually been found necessary to enrich such soils with energy sources in order to demonstrate production of antibiotic2. In unsterile soil cultures, production of actinomycete antibiotics in clearly detectable amounts has only rarely been reported3. The following investigation was made to determine the ability of Streptomyces albidoflavus to inhibit the growth of the fungus Fusarium culmorum under a variety of nutritive conditions and particularly with small amounts of readily available carbohydrate-conditions likely to be unfavourable for luxuriant growth of either organism.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- December 1953
- DOI:
- 10.1038/1721191a0
- Bibcode:
- 1953Natur.172.1191S