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SEVERAL strains of an organism which attacks and softens agar-agar have recently been isolated in this laboratory. The organism forms small, slowly growing, yellow colonies which grow well in the usual agar media; the colony is invariably situated in the centre of a circular area of softening. The ‘hammered copper’ appearance thus given to the plate is characteristic. No strain liquefies the agar. In stroke cultures the whole of the agar is in time softened, though growth does not proceed except on the surface.
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NICOL, H. Distribution of Agar-liquefying Bacteria. Nature 128, 1041–1042 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/1281041c0
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