Young-Ah Jeon, Myung-Sook Shin, Hyo-Jin Kim, Dae-Ho Kim, Seung-Joo Go and Seung-Beom Hong*
Korean Agricultural Culture Collection (KACC), National Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology
Correspondence to sbhong@rda.go.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) June 30, 2006, 34(1):54-58.
https://doi.org/10.4489/kjm.2006.34.1.054
(Received February 1, 2006)
Published: June 30, 2006.
Copyright © 2006 by The Korean Society of Mycology
Liquid nitrogen storage is the most effective way to preserve many fungi including what cannot be lyophilized. The use of polypropylene straws instead of cryotubes has many advantages in economy, safety, convenience, and space-saving. We, Korean Agricultural Culture Collection (KACC), established the fungal preservation methods in liquid nitrogen using polypropylene drinking straws and introduced the methods in detail.
Fungi, Liquid nitrogen storage, Long-term preservation, Polypropylene straw