Degradation of Nucleic Acid by Allomyces macrogynus during the Production of Zoosporangia and Resistant Sporangia

Abstract

Allomyces macrogynus plants were induced to make either zoosporangia in distilled water or resistant sporangia in a solution of glucose and glutamic acid. Analyses during the stages of developmentJ showed that plants of both series degraded nucleic acid, releasing uracil, hypoxanthine and guanin~ to the suspending medium. Plants in distilled water released inorganic phosphate to the medium while those in glucose-glutamic acid solution conserved the phosphate as bound phosphate. A. arbuscula also released the purines and pyrimidines.