Title: Isolation and Identification of Endophytic Fungi: The Uninvited and Unnoticed Guests
Url: http://www.ableweb.org/volumes/vol-37/v37reprint.php?ch=57
Author: Alma Rodriguez Estrada
Author's Address: Aurora University, IL
Email Address: arodriguezestrada@aurora.edu
Description: Endophytic fungi are fungi that grow in association with plants without causing any disease symptoms. The workshop "endophytic fungi: the uninvited and unnoticed guests" relates to a semester long project where students carry on an individual investigation involving the isolation and identification of endophytic fungi from plant samples. In this mini-workshop techniques such as surface sterilization, preparation of wet-mount from fungal cultures, the use of keys to identify filamentous fungi based on microscopic characters were demonstrated. This project has been implemented in a mycology course with the purpose of teaching and/or reinforcing concepts related to morphology of filamentous fungi, fungal diversity and fungal ecology. Likewise, this project exposes students to scientific inquiry, and supports the development of problem solving and organizational skills. Although this project has been implemented in a mycology course, it could easily be adapted to courses such as general biology, biology of cells, biology of organisms or microbiology.
Keywords: endophytic fungi
diversity
microscopy
identification
Topic: Microbiology
BEN Subject/Discipline Taxonomy: Mycology
Learning Resource Type: Laboratory exercise (DCMI Type Vocabulary)
Context: Graduate
Undergraduate upper division 15-16
Format: pdf
Access Rights: This resource is for ABLE members only.
Rights: http://www.ableweb.org/copyright-policy/
Conference Location & Year: Boston University (2015)
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