Transcript 2.5M - Nationally Significant Databases & Collections Providers` Group

New Zealand Fungal Herbarium (PDD)
Background
• started about 1920 by G.H. Cunningham
• transferred to DSIR, Plant Diseases Division in 1936.
• in 1992 the herbarium and its associated research became part of Landcare
Research.
Functions
• to acquire, preserve and maintain the national collection of New Zealand
fungi;
• to support associated systematic research;
• to provide a specialist information service for various organisations and
government departments both within New Zealand and throughout the Pacific;
• to be a repository for fungi of ecological significance
• for verification of plant disease records for New Zealand and for island
nations of the South Pacific;
• to underpin quarantine and border control decisions.
Collection Size
• over 70,000 accessioned specimens
• between 1,000 and 2,000 specimens added each year
Geographic Coverage
• over 150 countries represented in the collection with the following major
holdings: New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Australia, Canada, Germany,
USA.
Specimen Protection
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collection is housed in air-conditioned facilities
fire protection by Inergen gas flooding system
type specimens are held in locked, fire-retardant cabinets
annual fumigation of entire collection
Database
• all collection data electronic
• collections holdings on WWW
Database includes:
• nomenclature of names
• host associations
• literature
• descriptions
• illustrations
http://nzfungi.landcareresearch.co.nz
• will shortly link to plant names database
International Collection of Micro-organisms from
Plants (ICMP)
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living collection of bacterial and fungal cultures
international collection of plant associated bacteria
New Zealand’s main collection of fungal cultures
over 11,000 strains of micro-organisms, including 6,500 strains of
bacteria and 4,500 strains of fungi
• preservation methods:
– culture plugs vacuum-dried in glass ampoules
– culture plugs in glycerol solution within short plastic straws,
frozen in liquid nitrogen
International Collection of Micro-organisms from
Plants (ICMP)
• searchable database now on-line
http://nzfungi.landcareresearch.co.nz/icmp/search_cultures.asp
International Collection of Micro-organisms (ICMP)
• searchable database now on-line
http://nzfungi.landcareresearch.co.nz/icmp/search_cultures.asp