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Mutants with continuous microcycle conidiation in the filamentous fungus Fusarium solani f. sp. pisi

Authors: H. Gunnar Kølmark;

Mutants with continuous microcycle conidiation in the filamentous fungus Fusarium solani f. sp. pisi

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A method of repeated mutation induction and subsequent selection was used to obtain mutants with microcycle conidiation, mc, in Fusarium solani f. sp. pisi. Wild-type, wt, Fusarium has a filamentous (hyphal) growth in a three-stage, conidium—hypha—conidiophore (phialid) vegetative life cycle. The first major mutation induced (by means of the mutagen MNNG) changed the wild-type strain 1–3- from producing both macro- and microconidia to the mutant strain 19-P2-, producing only microconidia but preserving the three-stage life cycle. When strain 19-P2- was exposed to a similar mutagenic treatment mutants without the hyphal stage were obtained. In these mutants the microconidia germinate to form phialids directly, which in turn produce new conidia, thus accomplishing the life cycle as a two-stage, conidium-conidiophore, ‘microcycle’. The mc mutants were stabilized after reisolation through back-crossing to the wt of complementary mating type. Mc growth of the mutants is continuous under stable conditions, proceeding uninterrupted to the stationary stage in liquid as well as on solid medium. Mc colonies on solid medium are small and soft, well suited to replication by means of velvet or paper. Large numbers of mature, synchronized conidia are easily obtained from stationary-stage submerged cultures. Sequential mutations are of interest for studies of morphogenetic evolution. The ahyphal mutants make this group of eukaryotes well suited for genetic engineering and biotechnology.

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