Marvelous Microbe Collections Accelerate Discoveries To Protect People, Plants-and More!

摘要

Research leader and microbiologist Cletus Kurtzman and colleagues curate this comprehensive assemblage of living specimens of harmful and helpful bacteria, molds, actinomycetes (such as antibioticproducing Streptomyces), and yeasts from around the planet. Humber and Beltsville coinvestigators Stephen Rehner, an ARS molecular biologist, and Joe Bischoff, a mycologist with USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspec- tion Service, have evaluated hundreds of isolates from the collection's holdings to make crucial molecular revisions of the taxonomy of two important fungal species.