Agar Cultivation of Myxomycetes Arcyria denudata (L.) Wettst. - A potential source of secondary metabolites

Myxomycetes have proven to be the potential source of secondary metabolites but due to smaller size of fruiting bodies extraction of sufficient quantity of bioactive compounds become difficult thus laboratory culture of these species is important. The present paper describes the agar cultivation of A. denudata on 1.5 water agar medium. The species being a potential source of secondary metabolites was cultivated in laboratory from spore to spore in 20 days. Moreover, out of known species of myxomycetes only 10% species have been cultured so far and from those 60% species falls in order Physarales. Arcyria denudata belonging to order Trichiales is one of the three species cultured so far in the genus and thus the present study is apparently the first report from Maharashtra India.

@article{dr2026,
  author  = {Dr. Preeti Vinayak Phate*},
  title   = {{Agar Cultivation of Myxomycetes Arcyria denudata (L.) Wettst. - A potential source of secondary metabolites}},
  journal = {Journal of Bioresearch},
  year    = {2026},
  volume  = {2},
  number  = {2},
  doi     = {https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/QR5TC},
}