• Collection name: Micoteca da Estação Agronómica Nacional
  • Acronym: MEAN
  • WDCM number: 881
  • Institution: Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P.
  • Address:
    Edifício Florestal, Quinta do Marquês, Avenida da Republica
    2780-157 Oeiras
    Portugal
  • Website: https://www.iniav.pt/recursos-geneticos-microbianos
  • Correspondence data:
    E-mail:eugenio.diogo@iniav.pt
    Tel.: 351 21 4403500
    Correspondent: Eugenio Diogo

Members holdings

Group(s) of biological resources stored in the collection: yeasts, filamentous fungi, oomycota, other fungus- like organisms

The Mycotheque (MEAN) is housed at the Estação Agronómica Nacional/L-INIA/INiav. The main objective of the Mycotheque is to maintain cultures of filamentous fungi important for general and applied research which could be representative of the Portuguese mycological diversity associated to cultivated and spontaneous plants. Presently the collection holds about 800 strains of fungi and oomycetes.

Services offered

  • Supply of fungus cultures;
  • long term preservation;
  • Identification of plant pathogenic fungi

Research

  • Mycobiota from plants in Portugal