A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON PICHIA DISPORA AND PICHIA SAITOI
1972 Volume 18 Issue 5 Pages 377-382
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1972 Volume 18 Issue 5 Pages 377-382
A comparative study on Pichia dispora and Pichia saitoi was made and the results from this investigation seem to confirm them to be a different taxon. The two species differed in the mode of ascus formation, number of ascospores, nature of the ascus, and in the guanine-cytosine content in DNA but not in other biochemical characteristics. Such morphological characteristics in sexual reproduction are considered to be better keys for differentiating these two taxa than assimilability of ribitol in which a difference was formerly found between them.
