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VERY few analyses of free sugars have been reported in fungal spores. Owens et al.1 found 9.3 per cent hot-water soluble carbohydrate in conidia of Neurospora sitophila but only 0.06 per cent free sugars, principally glucose. Other authors2,3 have found higher amounts of free sugars in fungi. Sussman and Lingappa4 found 10 per cent trehalose in ascospores of Neurospora tetrasperma, while other fungi5 and yeasts6 also contain trehalose, often as the main carbohydrate reserve. The conidia of Neurospora sitophila, however, apparently contain none1. Irani and Ganapathi2 found free glucose, ribose and a trace of galac-tose in the mycelium of Penicillium chrysogenum. This report gives results of a study of the free sugars in the spores of Pithomyces chartarum (Berk, and Curt.) M. B. Ellis.
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ANDREW, I. Free Sugars in Spores of Pithomyces chartarum. Nature 203, 204–205 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203204b0
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