Biosynthetic Potentialities of Higher Fungi

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Abstract
Determinations of sugar utilized, mycelium formed and CO2 evolved by 11 species of fleshy Ascomycetes and 36 species of fleshy Basidiomycetes revealed that in general these organisms convert relatively large percentages of utilized substrate carbon to metabolic compounds other than CO2 and mycelium compounds. On the basis of these results such fungi are considered to have rather high potentalities as agents of biosynthesis and also to provide very excellent organisms for studies of fungus metabolism. None of the fungi studied synthesized any considerable amount of acid, which leads to the suggestion that the metabolic processes of these fungi may differ fundamentally from those of the "mold" type of fungi.