Study of the early growth and branching of Streptomyces tendae by means of an image processing system

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SUMMARY: A method is described for directly observing submerged growth of streptomycetes, which can be easily adapted for investigations of filamentously growing fungi. The use of an image processing system allowed a fast and accurate calculation of important morphological parameters. Most of the images can be analysed on‐line. Some results are presented for early growth and branching of Streptomyces tendae. It seems that mechanisms for growth of streptomycetes were the same for both solid and liquid media.