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How do you extract fungus from bark and put it on a potato dextrose agar?

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