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Strategies of Mass Cultivation of Microbes: Sebacinales

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The order Sebacinales placed at the base of Basidiomycetes exhibits fairly large diversity of mutualistic fungi. The rDNA sequence-based molecular ecology studies divulge that the members of Sebacinales form mutualistic associations with a number of terrestrial plant species. One of the extensively known members of Sebacinales is Piriformospora indica, which is an AM-like mycorrhizal fungus. It exhibits growth-promoting characteristics and can be cultured axenically. Various complex media are employed for the growth of the fungus; however, a simple and cheap medium was developed for commercial production. The optimisation of the media based on nutrient requirements had elucidated that Hill and Kaefer medium is the optimal medium for the growth of fungus. Fungal cultures can be raised on large scale in rotary shakers as well as fermenters. Further the fungal cultures are also produced on large scale as nanomycorrhiza.

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Ajit Varma is thankful to Department of Science and Technology and Department of Biotechnology for partial financial funding and to DST-FIST for providing confocal microscope facility.

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Bhola, D., Ajit, V. (2017). Strategies of Mass Cultivation of Microbes: Sebacinales . In: Varma, A., Sharma, A. (eds) Modern Tools and Techniques to Understand Microbes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49197-4_3

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