National Collection Of Fungi
National Collection Of Fungi Website
Mycology Unit
Biosystematics Division
Plant Protection Research Institute
Agricultural Research Council
KwaMhlanga road
Roodeplaat
Pretoria, South Africa.
Adriaana Jacobs-Venter project manager of NCF and curator of Basidiomycota, Fusarium and black yeasts
Elna van der Linde, curator of Ascomycota
Mariette Truter, curator of Fungi Imperfecti
Grace Kwinda, curator of Zygomycota and primitive fungi
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Fungal Culture Collection, University Of Stellenbosch
Main subjects:
Pathogens of Proteaceae, Vitaceae and Myrtaceae
Main genera:
Cylindrocladium, Cylindrocladiella, Pyrenophora, Ramulispora, Mycosphaerella, Botryosphaeria
Cultures held:
Fungi (4000)
Department of Plant Pathology
University of Stellenbosch
Private Bag X 1
7602 MATIELAND
Tel: (021) 808 4796
Fax: (021) 808 4956
Culture Collection Of The CSIR
Fungi
1) Mainly grain fungi and mycotoxin producers - 4500 isolates
2) Wood rotting fungi - 300 isolates
3) Yeasts - 2000 isolates
Bacteria
1) Lactic acid bacteria - 2500 isolates
2) Pathogenic bacteria - 300 isolates
Dr G.J. Marais
Project Leader: Food Quality
FOODTEK
CSIR
P.O. Box 395
0001 PRETORIA
Tel: (012) 841 2837
Fax: (012) 841 3594
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Yeast Culture Collection, University Of The Free State
Professor Carolina Pohl-Albertyn
Mrs Aurelia Van Wyk
Dept. of Microbial, Biochemical & Food Biotechnology
University of the Free State
P.O. Box 339
9300 BLOEMFONTEIN
Tel: (051) 401 2249/2772
Fax: (051) 448 3219
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Fungal Pathogens Of Trees And Wood Inhabiting Fungi
Professor M.J. Wingfield
FABI
Faculty of Biological and Agricultural Sciences
University of Pretoria
Lunnon Road
0002 HILLCREST
Tel: (012) 420-3939/8
Fax: (012) 420-3960
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Cput (IBMB), Toxigenic And Medical Fungi Collection
Dr Hanneke Alberts
Mycotoxicology and Chemoprevention Research Group
Institute of Biomedical and Microbial Biotechnology (IBMB)
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
PO Box 1906
Bellville
7535
Tel: (021) 938 0340
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Lactic Acid Bacteria Culture Collection, University Of Stellenbosch
Prof. Leon M.T. Dicks
Department of Microbiology
University of Stellenbosch
Private Bag X 1
7602 MATIELAND
Tel: +27 21 808 4536
Fax: +27 21 808 5846
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South African Rhizobium Culture Collection (SARCC)
SARCC website
Dr A.I Hassen (Curator, SARCC)
Biological Nitrogen Fixation UnitPlant Microbiology Division
ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute
Private bag X134
Queenswood 0121
Pretoria, South Africa
Ahmed Idris Hassen project manager of Expansion of the SARCC as a genetic resource and curator of the Rhizobium collection; Francina Lebogang Bopape and Poppy Mithumunye assistant curators.
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