Nutritional studies on nematode-trapping fungi

Abstract

Utilization of 18 carbon and nitrogen sources and 9 vitamins by three network forming fungi Arthrobotrys oligospora, A. conoides and Monacrosporium cystosporum was studied. They were able to utilize almost all the carbon and nitrogen sources except few and showed variation in their efficiency of utilization. For good growth the fungi required thiamin, biotin and partially 4-aminobenzoic acid. © 1989 Academia, Publishing House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.