Strain N9999T was isolated on HV agar (Hayakawa
and Nonomura 1987), supplemented with nalidixic
acid (20 lg ml-1) and the antifungal antibiotics
actidione and nystatin (each at 50 lg ml-1), after
28 C for 21 days following inoculation with a
suspension of soil collected from Sakarya in the
Marmara Region of Turkey. The isolate and the type
strain of S. pseudovulgare were maintained on
glucose-yeast extract (Gordon and Mihm 1962) and
yeast extract-malt extract (ISP medium 2; Shirling and
Gottlieb 1966) agar slopes at room temperature and as
hyphal fragments in glycerol (20 %, v/v) at -20 C.
Biomass of the isolate for most of the chemotaxonomic
and all of the molecular systematic procedures
was harvested from ISP 2 broth cultures, shaken on a
rotary shaker at 160 revolutions per minute for
14 days at 28 C, and then centrifuged, washed twice
in distilled water and recentrifuged. Some of the
resultant preparation was stored at -20 C for the
molecular systematic work and the rest freeze-dried
for the chemotaxonomic studies. A starter collection
for the fatty acid analyses was prepared in a flask
containing 20 ml Trypticase Soy Broth (Difco) which
was shaken at 150 rpm for 5 days at 28 C. Five ml of
the resultant culture was used to inoculate 50 ml of
TSB which was incubated under the same conditions,
the biomass harvested by cellulose filtration (pore size
0.45 lm) and the wet cells (200 mg) placed in an
extraction tube