Abstract
Conditions are described that led to the isolation of NRRL B-2309M, a strain of Bacillus popilliae which sporulates regularly in laboratory culture. Colonies grown on a medium formulated with yeast extract and the ingredients of Mueller-Hinton with phosphate, trehalose, and agar, produced 20% spores in 10 to 12 days. The quantity and kind of yeast extract determine the extent of sporulation, although there are other requirements for optimal growth and sporulation. Spore inocula free of viable vegetative cells are necessary to maintain sporogenicity since asporogenic substrains arise spontaneously on solid and in liquid media. One such substrain, NRRL B-2309N, is also asporogenic in larvae, but lethal, owing to vigorous vegetative growth. Strain B-2309M is infective when vegetative cells or spores are injected into Japanese beetle larvae but fewer spores are formed in vivo than when infections are caused by NRRL B-2309. The characteristics of four related strains of B. popilliae are tabulated.
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