Free Amino-acids of Some Fungi

Abstract

THE nature and amounts of free amino-acids in higher plants are becoming relatively well known since the advent of paper chromatography. However, few investigations of amino-acids in the Cryptogams have been made. Fowden¹ has studied the amino-acids of certain algae, Mansford and Raper² those of Mucor mucedo, Fluck and Richle³ those of Fusarium lycopersici. The yeasts, Aspergillus, Penicillium and Neurospora species⁴, have been extensively studied but the rest of the fungi remain largely unexamined.