The Identification of Wild Yeast Colonies on Lysine Agar
- 1 December 1965
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Bacteriology
- Vol. 28 (3) , 373-383
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2672.1965.tb02167.x
Abstract
The most common wild yeasts infecting pressed baker's yeast in Great Britain are Candida tropicalis, C. krusei, C. mycoderma, Trichosporon cutaneum, Torulopsis candida and Rhodotorula mucilaginosa. Wild yeasts are readily detected and quantitatively estimated by plating infected baker's yeast on lysine agar, which permits of only limited growth of baker's yeast.Morphology of wild yeast colonies on lysine agar is affected by duration of incubation, location in the agar plate, and sometimes by temperature of incubation, density of infection and numbers of baker's yeast cells present. It is therefore possible to identify each species by at least one characteristic type of colony produced under specified conditions. Ability to grow at 30° and 37° serves to distinguish further between certain species.Keywords
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