Growth and Sporulation of Auxotrophs of Bacillus subtilis in a Medium with Limited Nutrients
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Microbiology and Immunology
- Vol. 23 (8) , 727-734
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1348-0421.1979.tb00515.x
Abstract
Growth and sporulation were examined for 30 auxotrophs of Bacillus subtilis in a chemically defined medium with suboptimal amounts of nutrients. All strains except for some adenine-requiring mutants could not overtake sporulation stage II when amino acids, vitamins, or bases were limited, whereas they sporulated fairly well without limitation. Abnormal structures, a cell with thickened cell wall and a cell with several refractile bodies, were found in some strains after the vegetative growth stopped.Keywords
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