Aside from M9 Minimal Media, what are other types of minimal media?

My partner and I are trying to culture bacteria. We are attempting to culture bacteria in minimal media using plastic as its carbon source. We would like to know an alternative in case we do not...

04 May 2018 8,411 3 View

What are possible ways of creating amorphous PET from non amorphous PET?

We currently have plastic bottles that are non amorphous. Is there a methodology available that could be done in order to transform these plastic bottles into amorphous form? Thank you

03 April 2018 8,457 0 View

What antifungal agent could be added to nutrient agar?

We are planning to grow bacteria on nutrient agar, but we would like to avoid the growth of fungi. We only want bacteria; thus, what antifungal agent could we add to the nutrient agar?

03 April 2018 3,863 14 View

What are possible methods that could used for isolating the DNA of siderophores from fungi?

My partner and I are planning to conduct a study on siderophores found in fungi. We are wondering what are possible ways that we would be able to isolate its DNA.

01 February 2018 2,800 4 View

Are there ways that a siderophore could be physically isolated from fungi?

My partner and I are conducting a study in siderophores in fungi. We would like to know if there would be any way that we would be able to isolate the siderophore from the fungi itself.

01 February 2018 5,119 8 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

How to remove the residual PDMS on the silicon mold?

Incompletely cross-linked pdms are difficult to remove.

01 March 2021 798 3 View

The reason that the culture of white fungi Contamination with green mold(Trichoderma), the culture autoclave at121 for 15 min. What is it?

Is the period to autoclave not enough? The inoculation in a hood and flame and UV and alcohol.

27 February 2021 9,356 3 View

What is the most suitable medium of ascomycetes fungi ??

What is the most suitable medium of ascomycetes fungi ??

26 February 2021 4,413 1 View

Has anyone used the Illumina ITS1 primer sets?

Hi everyone, Illumina provides a list of primers to amplify with high taxonomic coverage the ITS1 region for further fungal sequencing, but I cannot find the exact amount necessary of each...

25 February 2021 6,969 3 View

Can 5-FOA Diffuse Through Agar?

I am preparing to do a gene knockout in the filamentous fungi Coccidioides posadasii targeting pyrG/URA3 so that 5-FOA can be used for selection pressure instead of traditional antibiotic...

16 February 2021 169 4 View

Any specific reason, how sclerotium rolfsii can grow out of Petridish?

Is it related to nutrition or any other reason? Any other fungus have similar kind of growth pattern?

09 February 2021 4,357 4 View

Where can I find Plasmopara viticola?

Hello everyone, For my research I want to infect Vitis Vinifera leaves with downy mildew-causing fungus Plasmopara viticola. Does anyone know where I could find or purchase this fungi? I am...

04 February 2021 5,720 3 View

How to store Fusarium oxysporum for long period in simple methods ?

31 January 2021 1,832 17 View

Cutoff for asv reads?

I got my fungi sequences back from Illumina Miseq sequencing and I'm wondering how many reads do you use as a cutoff? ie. do you delete anything with less than 100 reads? I can't seem to find any...

28 January 2021 5,646 4 View