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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;...
02 March 2021 1,406 1 View
Is the period to autoclave not enough? The inoculation in a hood and flame and UV and alcohol.
28 February 2021 9,618 3 View
What is the most suitable medium of ascomycetes fungi ??
27 February 2021 4,661 1 View
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...
17 February 2021 355 4 View
I have several bacterial strains belonging to Bacillus sp and Pseudomonas sp. Now, I would like to construct a phylogenetic tree for them, however, I do not know how can I find the best outgroup...
11 February 2021 8,998 4 View
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...
05 February 2021 5,880 3 View
We have cultured Fusarium oxysporum on PDA medium and we want to store it for a long period of time. We would be thankful if someone can provide an easy method to store fungal strain especially...
01 February 2021 2,051 17 View
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...
29 January 2021 5,807 4 View
My environmental sample was analyzed for fungi by both DGGE (18S) and NGS (ITS2), resulted in some different names (in the top 5 of strong bands in DGGE, or most abundant sequences in NGS) between...
22 January 2021 5,397 3 View
1. There is a little confusion about the meaning of model selection in AIC. To Illustrate, I have some different metal concentrations from 20 sites. how can I use AIC in this case? I know the...
22 January 2021 5,122 4 View
I need to preserve broth culture of wet fungus spore for my further research. Can any one suggest me any solution.
19 January 2021 4,896 2 View
Chlorella vulgaris culture after 3-4 days. What is it?
19 January 2021 7,327 3 View
I have bacterial, fungal, and protist OTU table. I want to know to what extent protist and fungi distribution can explain the bacteria distribution. I only know Mantel test could do a correlation...
12 January 2021 4,308 2 View
Hello Everyone, i'm working on lower fungi (filamentous fungi or molds) and I am looking for a database concerning my topic ,thank you
12 January 2021 7,040 7 View
The pictures were taken in Guishan Mts in Yunnan. The fungus is ca. 10-12 cm high.
08 January 2021 6,800 10 View
I am making an antimicrobial extract from fungal metabolite but the fungi are not known. So I don't know at what concentration I should subject them to but what I do know I will test them against...
08 January 2021 1,017 6 View
Someone knows about a specific law or regulation which mentions the use of the rose bengal chloramphenicol agar is suitable to isolate and count fungi. Perhaps, someone has done a research about...
08 January 2021 5,462 5 View
As we known that CMC Agar medium is used for cellulolitic bacteria or fungi which have different time on incubation
07 January 2021 3,636 2 View
I had come across a protocol to assess and score the sporulation of fungi, where they has taken out a 5 mm fungal disc and transferred to 5ml sterile dist.water and spore count was recorded under...
06 January 2021 9,615 1 View
I need to perform a motility test for candida albicans and s. epidermidis. However, they do not reduce the TTC in the motility agar. I have come to find out that TTC only works on gram negatives,...
06 January 2021 614 7 View
Below ground ecology or below ground ecological functions and ecosystems roles are very crucial and highly significant for any ecosystem especially for the forest ecosystems. The interaction among...
03 January 2021 7,060 3 View
Blower compressed air given at the Meltblown die outlet generally pressurizes the polymer melt at an angle of 60 degrees. What changes occur in the fiber structure when this angle is changed? As...
02 January 2021 4,481 1 View
Hi everyone, Any successful trials for getting some cultures from Peziza Fruitbodies? We have done several trials using usual medium of PDA/ MA, but all failed. Thanks in advance
30 December 2020 7,124 6 View
Hi, How we can sanitize or prevent fungal growth outside the bags in the high humidity of the chamber?
29 December 2020 2,607 2 View