TITLE:
Basidiocarp Production of Stropharia melanosperma (Bull.) Gillet in Nutrient Agar Media
AUTHORS:
Anatoly Trostanetsky
KEYWORDS:
Fruiting Body Formation, Mushroom, Heterothallic, Tetrapolar
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology,
Vol.5 No.7,
June
5,
2014
ABSTRACT: The present work studies the fruiting body production of S. melanosperma (Bull.) Gillet using pairing
test in nutrient agar media. Fourteen monokaryotic strains from single fruit
body were chosen for the pairing test. Ninety-one crossings were made and fruit
bodies were found in 20 crossings. Fully mature basidiocarps were produced in a
ring-like fashion in one or both colonies. The patterns of the fruit body
production in crossing single spore isolates are similar to those common in
heterothallic tetrapolar species. The conducted work shows that S. melanosperma can serve as a model
organism for the study of developmental processes in the basidiomycetes.