- Collection name: BCCM/MUCL Agro-food & Environmental Fungal Collection
- Acronym: BCCM/MUCL
- WDCM number: 308
- Institution: Université catholique de Louvain, Earth and Life Institute, Microbiology, Mycology
- Address:
Croix du Sud 2, box L7.05.06
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
- Website: https://bccm.belspo.be/about-MUCL
Website of the catalogue or database of the collection: https://bccm.belspo.be/MUCL-catalogue-search - Correspondence data:
E-mail: bccm-mucl@uclouvain.be
Tel.: + 32 10 47 37 42
Correspondent: Prof. Stephan Declerck
Members holdings
Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: yeasts, filamentous fungi, oomycota, other fungus- like organisms, DNA from fungi
The BCCM/MUCL public collection holds over 30.000 strains of filamentous fungi, yeasts and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, representing more than 1.400 genera and 5.000 species of Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes, Glomeromycetes, Oomycetes and Zygomycetes.
BCCM/MUCL includes many types of strains and isolates that have ecological, agro-environmental or biotech interest.
Moreover, BCCM / MUCL houses the Penicillium collection of Prof. P. Biourge (founder of the collection in 1894), the collection of Prof. J.A. Meyer of soil fungi from Central Africa, the general collection of Prof. G.L. Hennebert, the UCL brewery yeast collection as well as an unique collection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi exclusively cultivated in vitro.
The mycological herbarium contains about 40.000 specimens.