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Fungus Extraction
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- Project Question: How do you extract a fungus from bark and put it onto a potato dextrose agar?
- Project Due Date: 2/2/11
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Fungus Extraction
How do you extract fungus from bark and put it on a potato dextrose agar?
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donnahardy2
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Re: Fungus Extraction
Hi,
It sounds like you are working on an interesting project.
Here is a website that shows how to collect fungal samples form wood.
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/Spfo/pubs/howto ... sample.htm
And, here is a website that includes good photographs showing the technique for inoculating fungal samples onto an agar plate. You would need to use a straw or similar device that could hold a small sample of the wood you are sampling.
http://www.umsl.edu/~microbes/streakplates.pdf
What type of fungus are you trying to grow?
Donna Hardy
It sounds like you are working on an interesting project.
Here is a website that shows how to collect fungal samples form wood.
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/Spfo/pubs/howto ... sample.htm
And, here is a website that includes good photographs showing the technique for inoculating fungal samples onto an agar plate. You would need to use a straw or similar device that could hold a small sample of the wood you are sampling.
http://www.umsl.edu/~microbes/streakplates.pdf
What type of fungus are you trying to grow?
Donna Hardy