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It was shown that Chaetomium was isolated from four types of soil; Cinebar, Ephrata, Milville, and quartz sand, more frequently when using alcohol agar as the growth medium than it (Chaetomium) was isolated from these soils when using either Czepak's-Dox agar or peptone-dextrose agar plus rose bengal and streptomycin. This isolation method proved to be one which permits identification of the Chaetomium species without further culturing.
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This paper is based on work performed under United States Atomic Energy Commission Contract AT (45-1)-1830.
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Davis, J.D. A selective isolation technique for determining Chaetomium in soil. Plant Soil 31, 179–181 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01373036
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01373036