Morphology in submerged culture

[mspear]

James E Gannon (bact at selway.umt.edu) wrote:
> I have just begun working with submerged (liquid grown) cultures of 
> Rhizopus.  Form the same spore prep, some times I get discrete bead like 
> morphology and others I get an "uncontrolled" filamentous mass?  What 
> specifically controls morphological type under submerged conditions?  
> <bact at selway.umt.edu).



 
In some species the speed of agitation or ammount of bubbling can have
an effect like you discribe.

    ---- Mark