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Effect of Growth Substances on Growth and Fruiting of Melanospora destruens

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IT has been shown1 that a strain of the ascomycete Melanospora destruens which makes only negligible growth on a synthetic medium will grow vigorously and will produce perithecia on a similar medium to which a crude extract of lentils is added.

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HAWKER, L. Effect of Growth Substances on Growth and Fruiting of Melanospora destruens. Nature 142, 1038 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421038a0

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