Hg tolerance and biouptake of an isolated pigmentation yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa.

A pigmented yeast R1 with strong tolerance to Hg2+ was isolated. Phylogenetic identification based on the analysis of 26S rDNA and ITS revealed R1 is a Rhodotorula mucilaginosa species. R1 was able to grow in the presence of 80 mg/L Hg2+, but the lag phase was much prolonged compared to its growth i...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Bing Liu, Chaogang Wang, Danxia Liu, Ning He, Xu Deng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5333980?pdf=render