Blazheevskaia Iu V, Vember V V, Zhdanova N N
Institute of Microbiology and Virology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv.
Mikrobiol Z. 2002 May-Jun;64(3):3-13.
The work aim was the discovering of peculiarities of microscopic fungi responding to radioactive pollution by growth velocity change. The linear growth velocity of a broad range of micromycetes was analyzed. They were chosen in such a way that every species, as far as possible, was presented by the strains isolated from radioactive polluted and clean regions. Most of the studied species were characterized by the absence of reliable growth velocity differences of strains of the same species growing on rich and starving media. Only two species--Aureobasidium pullulans and Penicillium spinulosum were the exception. Their growth velocities on malt-agar were much more then those on starving medium (1.7-3.6. times). Species Hormonema dematioides did not have reliable differences of growth velocity on optimal and starving media, but A. pullulans had this difference (2.3-3.6 times). It is supposed to use this observation to simplify identification of these species. Only strains within species Cladosporium sphaerospermum and especially P. funiculosum isolated from radioactive polluted ecotopes had growth velocity which was less then that of the strains from clean regions. The delay of growth velocity in such conditions can testify to adaptive change of metabolic processes of these strains. The strains which were characterized by delay of growth velocity existed at the substrates with high radioactive pollution for a long time.
