Multilocus phylogenetic analyses, pullulan production and xylanase activity of tropical isolates of Aureobasidium pullulans

• Main Authors: Pennapa Manitchotpisit, Timothy D. Leathers, Stephen W. Peterson, Cletus P. Kurtzman, Xin Liang Li, Douglas E. Eveleigh, Pongtharin Lotrakul, Sehanat Prasongsuk, Christopher A. Dunlap, Karl E. Vermillion, Hunsa Punnapayak
• Other Authors: Mahidol University
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/26975

Aureobasidium pullulans is the source of the commercially valuable polysaccharide pullulan and the enzyme xylanase. Isolates are typically off-white to pale pink or black on solid media, while some tropical isolates have been described as 'color variants' with bright pigments of red, yello...