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- adjective Possessing
thermotolerance ; able to withstandheat .
Etymologies
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P. chrysosporium decomposes both the lignin and cellulose in wood; it is unique in that (i) it produces copious quantities of spores, making it easy to transfer; (ii) it is thermotolerant, growing rapidly at 35 to 40 C, but also well at 25 C; and (iii) it has simple nutritional requirements.
Chapter 5 1979
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This was most frequently associated with citrus and citrus concentrates and accounted for the majority of thermotolerant sporeformers isolated from apple juices and concentrates.
BeverageDaily RSS 2010
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Aspergillus fumigatus is a thermotolerant human-pathogenic mold and the most common cause of invasive aspergillosis (IA) in immunocompromised patients.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Daniela Albrecht 2010
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Aspergillus fumigatus is a thermotolerant human-pathogenic mold and the most common cause of invasive aspergillosis (IA) in immunocompromised patients.
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To identify genes that selectively regulate hypoxic sensitivity, we compared the whole-organismal transcriptomes of three daf-2 reduction-of-function alleles, all of which are hypoxia resistant, thermotolerant, and long lived, but differ in their rank of severities for these phenotypes.
Elites TV 2009
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Growth of thermophilic and thermotolerant fungi in soil in situ and in vitro
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Baseline assessments of the drinking water quality in the home indicated a median contamination of thermotolerant coliforms (TTC) of 32 TTC/100 ml (interquartile range (IQR) = 3-344;
PLoS Medicine: New Articles Daniel Mäusezahl et al. 2009
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