A Superior Fat-synthesizing Single-spore Strain of Lipomyces

CONSIDERABLE attention has been devoted to the investigation of fat-producing micro-organisms as a potential industrial process. Woodbine 1 has recently reviewed this field and showed that, whereas many strains had been examined for their fat-producing abilities, no rationalized investigation for improving the fat-producing ability of an individual strain by selection had been undertaken. Such a strain could be isolated originally as either a single cell or a spore which could then be subcultured to give a genetically homogeneous strain.