Vermiculite as a culture substrate greatly improves the viability of frozen cultures of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2020.05.002
Abstract: We assessed a new cryopreservation protocol that uses vermiculite as a culture substrate, called the vermiculite protocol (VP), by assessing the viability, recovery time of hyphae after revival, and colony diameter of cryosensitive ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete… read more here.
Keywords: protocol; culture substrate; vermiculite culture; viability ... See more keywords