Peter Werner

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Phytagel/gellan gum - why mostly used in plant tissue culture?

I have a question about gellan gum (aka Phytagel, Gelrite). Basically, why is it mostly used as a gelling medium for plant tissue culture and not so much in culturing other organisms? In my...

09 September 2019 5,415 4 View

Trichoderma - literature on development of conidiophores/branchlets?

A question for Trichoderma specialists - has any research been done on the morphogenesis of conidiophores in Trichoderma and how that might relate to mycoparasitic structures? What I've noticed is...

09 September 2019 4,555 5 View

Protocol for fixing and mounting fungi from agar culture?

I'm looking for a good protocol for taking fungi (mostly conidial ascomycetes) growing on an agar plate and fixing them and ultimately staining and mounting them. Would one simply remove a plug of...

06 June 2019 3,415 6 View

Gelatin as a gelling agent for fungal growth media?

I'm planning an experiment involving imaging cultures of mycoparasitic Trichodermium interacting with various species of host fungi and am thinking of various methods of imaging the interaction...

05 May 2019 2,614 3 View