I wonder if anyone has experience of induction of ascomata in pure culture? I suspect the methods are fairly species-specific or are there some protocols involving various media, temperatures and light et c that can be used for screening a lot of various ascomycetes? I found these articles so far:

Houbraken J, Dyer PS (2015): Induction of the Sexual Cycle in Filamentous Ascomycetes... In: van den Berg, MA., Maruthachalam, K (Eds.) (2015): Genetic Transformation Systems in Fungi, Volume 2 (Fungal Biology). Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10503-1_2.

Untereiner Wendy A. (1994): A Simple Method for the in Vitro Production of Pseudothecia in Species of Capronia. Mycologia 86, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1994), pp. 290-295

Grateful for any advice! (for example, lab, person, articles).

Björn Nordén

Spooren Marco, 07-01-2019 14:28

Re : Induction of ascomata in pure culture

Hello Björn,

Maby the simplest way to find these things out is to write an e- mail to the Westerdijk-Institute.

I had good advices from the kitchen there, that time, they are an open institute and are willingly to help as much they can, is my expierence.

Otherwise there are some, antiquarian books, but the same Westerdijk-institute has a manual about tese things.

Best,

Marco