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Table 1 Colony characteristics, budding features and shape of selected yeasts

From: Oleaginous yeasts from Ethiopia

Strain

Source

Colony morphology(colony color, size, shape, texture and diameter)

Budding pattern

Cell shape

SY09

Soil

Orange, medium, circular, smooth, dry colonies with diameter 3–5 mm

Bipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

SY18

Soil

Pink, small, circular, smooth, dry colonies with diameter 2–3 mm

Multipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

SY20

Soil

Orange, small, circular, smooth, moist colonies with diameter 2–3 mm

Multipolar

Ovoidal to spherical shape

SY30

Soil

Pink, medium, circular, smooth, moist colonies with diameter 3–5 mm

Multipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

SY43

Soil

Orange, irregular, large, smooth, moist colonies with diameter of 5–10 mm

Multipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

SY52

Soil

Salmon, medium, irregular, smooth, dry colonies with diameter of 3–5 mm

Bipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

SY75

Soil

Orange, medium, irregular, wrinkled, moist colonies with diameter 3–5 mm

Unipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

SY89

Soil

Salmon, medium, circular, smooth, dry colonies with diameter of 3–5 mm

Bipolar

Ovoidal

SY94

Soil

Orange, large, irregular, wrinkled, dry colonies with diameter of 5–10 mm

Multipolar

Ovoidal

PY21

Fruit

Orange, small, circular, smooth, moist colonies with diameter of 2–3 mm

Multipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

PY23

Fruit

Pink, circular, medium, smooth, moist colonies with diameter of 3–5 mm

Multipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

PY25

Fruit

Orange, circular, medium, smooth, dry colonies with 3–5 mm in diameter

Multipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

PY32

Flower

Orange, circular, medium, smooth, dry colonies with diameter of 3–6 mm

Multipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

PY39

Flower

Creamy, large, irregular, wrinkled, moist, colonies with diameter of 5–10 mm

Multipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

PY44

Flower

Pink, circular, medium, smooth, dry colonies with diameter of 3–5 mm

Multipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

PY55

Flower

Pink, medium, circular, wrinkled, moist colonies with diameter of 3–5 mm

Multipolar

Ovoidal

PY61

Leaf

Red, medium, irregular, wrinkled, moist colonies with diameter of 3–5

Unipolar

Ovoidal to spherical

PY86

Leaf

Salmon, small, irregular, wrinkled, moist colonies with diameter of 2–3 mm

Bipolar

Ovoidal