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[Spontaneous sector formation in soil streptomycetes colonies]
Abstract:
A model of the formation of sectors during the growth and zone formation of a colony of the soil radiant fungus streptomycetes was developed. It was shown that the basic parameters determining the shape of the sector border are the correlations between the growth rates of the sector of mycelium hyphae and the remainder of the colony and between the frequency and the numbers of branching order of these hyphae. Based on the long-standing observations, a polyseasonal dependence of spontaneous sector formation in streptomycetes zone-forming colonies was demonstrated.
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