| Registered Number | 134 |
| Acronym | NCWRF |
| Full Name | National Collection of Wood Rotting Fungi |
| Institution | CABI Bioscience |
| Correspondent | Assoc.Prof. David Smith |
| Postal Address | Bakeham Lane,Egham,Surrey,TW20 9TY |
| Country | U.K. |
| Telephone 1 | (44) 1491-829000 |
| Fax 1 | (44) 1491-829100 |
| E-mail 1 | dsmith@cabi.org |
| Homepage | http://www.cabi.org/ |
| Status | Intergovernmental :42countries |
| Sponsor | CABI |
| Director | Assoc.Prof. David Smith |
| Curator | Assoc. Prof. Matthew J. Ryan (Fungal culture preservation) |
| Number of Staff |
Mycology (3) Bacteriology (1) Assistants (4) Biochemist/molecular biology (2) Total (10) |
| Subjects | Agriculture |
| Ecology | |
| Applied microbiology | |
| Culture and preservation methods | |
| Environmental protection | |
| Freeze drying | |
| General microbiology | |
| Industrial microbiology | |
| Systematics and taxonomy | |
| Mycology | |
| Biopesticides | |
| Biodiversity |
| Method and category of cultures | Liquid N2(Fungi; Bacteria; Nematodes) | ||||
| Freeze-dry(Fungi; Bacteria) | |||||
| Silica gel(Fungi) | |||||
| Mineral Oil(Fungi) | |||||
| Control of the culture | Morphology | ||||
| Some biochemical | |||||
| Some molecular | |||||
| Source(s) of strains for people in this country: isolated by or introduced from | Isolation by ourselves | ||||
| Personally from the scientists in our country | |||||
| From the collections in our country | |||||
| From the research institutions in our country | |||||
| the collection abroad | ATCC(USA) | ||||
| the collection abroad | DSMZ(Germany) | ||||
| the collection abroad | CBS(Netherlands) | ||||
| Number of Strains until now | Type | Holding strains (total number)/(number from your country) |
new species (total number)/(number from your country) |
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| Fungi | 550 | 0 | |||
| Number of strains in 2012 | Type | Holding strains (total number)/(number from your country) |
new species (total number)/(number from your country) |
Microbes distributed (total number)/(in your country) |
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| Fungi | |||||||
| Availability | Exchange with Most recognized collection |
| Fee for See website |
| Services | Patent deposits(Fungi; Bacteria; Nematodes) |
| Storage services(Wood-rotting macrofungi) | |
| Distribution(On request and payment of appropriate fee) | |
| Identification(Fungi(Wood-rotting macro-fungi)) | |
| Training | Management of a culture collection |
| Culture and preservation methods | |
| Quality control | |
| Systematics | |
| Identification | |
| Consulation about | Patent deposits |
| Preservation | |
| Propagation | |
| Shipment regulations | |
| Mycology | |
| Agriculture | |
| Biopesticides | |
| Ecology | |
| Biodiversity | |
| Other Service | Challenge testing |
| Bioaudits | |
| Information provision |
| Date of Entry | 1981-10-26 |
| Date of Reply | 2006-07-13 |
| Fungi |