International Training on In Vitro Culture of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi

• Official Welcome
• Presentation of the University, Laboratory of Mycology (UCL-ELI-ELIM), CESAMM and GINCO
• Overview of the potential of in vitro cultivation of AM fungi for research and AM inoculum production

• Presentation of the training
• Visit of GINCO
• Initiation to the management of an in vivo and in vitro collection of AM fungi
• Sampling of inoculum from trap cultures

Session II
Spores and root disinfection

Session III
Host preparation and maintenance (root-organs, seed disinfection, plant micro-propagation)

Session IV
Inoculation techniques

Session V
Set-up and maintenance of the HAM-P in vitro culture systems

Session VI
Set-up and maintenance of the AM-P in vitro culture systems

Session VII
MD-P in vitro culture systems

• Technical update (e.g. Mycorrhizal Plant Donor system)
• Information on the use of the starter kit
• Round table discussion
• Visit of the Mycothèque de l'Université catholique de Louvain (BCCM™/MUCL)

Propagules sampling.

Propagules desinfection.

Set up of AMP system.

Plants micro-propagation.

Sight seeing in Brussels (first training session May 2005).

Manneken Pis, the emblematic figure of Brussels.