The identification of streptomyces isolated from environmental soil samples with hypal mycelium inoculom on computer assisted identification

Abstract

Representatives of Slrepiomyces strains isolated from environmental soil samples were subjected to identify for the diagnostic characters recommended by Williams et al. (1983b) as a duplicate. Diagnostic characters were tested using a mixture of spores and mycelial fragments, respectively, in order to identify some Streptomyces species and strains on computer assited identification. Most of the marker strains were identified to the correct clusters. In contrast, 20 strains out of 38 unknown strains were assigned to any major cluster described by Williams et al. (1983a). Computer‐assisted identification procedure has provided reliable identification scores for marker or unknown strains.

Key words:

• Streptomycetes
• identification
• computer