- Collection name: Culture Collection of Fungi
- Acronym: CCF
- WDCM number: 182
- Institution: Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Botany
- Address:
Benátská 2
CZ-128 00 Prague 2
Czech Republic - Website: https://natur.cuni.cz/en/biology/departments-and-work-places/department-of-botany/structure/ccf-culture-collection-of-fungi
Website of the catalogue or database of the collection: https://natur.cuni.cz/en/biology/departments-and-work-places/department-of-botany/structure/ccf-culture-collection-of-fungi
Correspondence data:
E-mail: alena.kubatova@natur.cuni.cz
Tel.: +420 221 951 656
Correspondent: Alena Kubatova
Members holdings
Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: yeasts, filamentous fungi, oomycota, other fungus- like organisms.
The CCF culture collection now contains over 5000 saprotrophic filamentous microscopic fungi, mainly Ascomycota and zygomycetous fungi (esp. Eurotiales, Hypocreales and Mucorales). Many strains are original isolates of Czech specialists from soil, food and feed, air, clinical substrates, beetles, plants etc. Some strains come from foreign collections. The CCF now preserves ca 460 ex-type cultures. The strains are preserved on agar media in refrigerators, in lyophilized state, under oil, and in alginate pellets. The most important strains (e.g. ex-type strains) are maintained in liquid nitrogen.