Yeasts from Antarctica
- 1 October 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of General Microbiology
- Vol. 23 (2) , 295-300
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-23-2-295
Abstract
The yeast flora of moss from Granite Harbour and of soils from Wright Dry Valley in the McMurdo Sound region of Antarctica was examined. There were 75,000 yeasts/g on the moss; species recovered were Cryptococcus laurentii, C. albidus and Rhodotorula minuta. Yeasts were isolated from 8 of the 12 soil samples in numbers up to 5000/g. Strains of Candida scottii, whose maximum growth temperature was 15[degree]C, were the predominant soil yeasts.Keywords
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- Some Physiological Characters of Yeasts from Soils and Allied HabitatsJournal of General Microbiology, 1959