Collecting and Preserving Fungi
Published: Tue, 04 Dec 2012, 14:09Last updated: Fri, 15 May 2015, 11:12
This is a guide to a course on basic mycology for technical assistants of the SADC countries of the SAFRINET-loop of BioNET-International, presented by the staff of the National Collection of Fungi, Pretoria. The manual, as well as the associated lectures and practical sessions, is intended to provide technical assistants with experience in basic practical mycology. To assist the user in avoiding common pitfalls, it offers information based on personal experience and reliable sources. All the steps from including topics such as record-keeping, the processing of material, choice and preparation of growth media, basic isolation methods, preserving specimens in a reference collection, and herbarium procedures. Background information on classifying and naming fungi is included, as well as the most important characters of the major groups of economically important fungi. A list of useful references is also provided as a guide to some of the more specialised information in the literature.
Resources on this page are not intended to be interpretations of ISPMs and terminology used may not be consistent with ISPM 5. Unless otherwise indicated resources, or pest distributions contained within them are not endorsed/adopted/agreed by the CPM nor developed under the auspices of the IPPC Secretariat, and are the exclusive responsibility of the author of the contributed phytosanitary resource.
Resource provide by:- SAFRINET
Author/Editor name and address: A.P.Baxter, E. van der Linde
Type of contact: Other
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- Manual/Guide
Documents:
Collecting_and_Preserving_Fungi.pdf