Intracellular bacterial infection in Agaricus bisponts (Lange) Sing..

Janusz Kalbarczyk

Abstract


Rod-shaped Gram-bacteria were observed in preparations made from the sporocarp or mummy - diseased Agaricus bisporus in the electron microscope. In cells of diseased rhizomorphs from several to a few dozen bacteria were found. Cells filled with a large number of bacteria were dead and the cellular wall was degraded. Probable the entrace of bacterie penetration into the mushroom ccll was observed. The bacterium. after its isolation, was identified as Pseudomonas sp.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5586/am.1985.020

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  • 2353-074X (online)
  • 0001-625X (print; ceased since 2015)
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