It has always been our endeavour to update our readers with the new additions that has been successfully made into our ever growing Culture Collection Bank. We would like to acknowledge that we have shown a little inattention towards exhibiting one ofthe ensuing wealth of our collection. We intend to rectify our slip-up in this edition by showcasing the vast collection of Ectomycorrhiza (EcM) well-maintained in our culture collection bank.An ectomycorrhizal (EcM) root is characterized by the presence of three structural components: a sheath or mantle of fungal tissue which encloses the root, a labyrinthine inward growth of hyphae between the epidermal and cortical cells called the Hartignet and an outwardly growing system of hyphal elements (the extraradical or external mycelium). The ectomycorrhizal (EcM) symbiosis involves association between plants and fungal taxa worldwide. Unlike arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, EcM fungi reproduce sexually and produce macroscopic fruit bodies. Field observations, collections and isolations from these fruit bodies have helped us in bringing together an amazing diversity of putatively EcM forming fungi from many taxonomically genera. Appended at the end of our write up is the list of available cultures that can be provided to the researchers whenever requested.
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