| BCCM™ : |
acronym of the Belgian Co-ordinated
Collections of Micro-organisms. |
| CCFC : |
acronym of the Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures. |
| Contaminant : |
non desired organisms growing simultaneously in
a culture supposedly pure. |
| DAOM : |
acronym of the National Mycological Herbarium,
Department of Agriculture Ottawa Mycology. |
| Glomeromycota : |
order of the Zygomycotina
that include all arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. |
| Inoculum : |
substance that contain one or several organisms
assigned to be incorporated to a substrate or to a culture media. |
| In vitro : |
from Latin, to designate the mode of cultivation
where organisms are grown under aseptic conditions, in comparison
to in vivo where growth occur under natural conditions. |
| Monospecificity : |
single natural association between two living organisms. |
| Monoxenic : |
quality of a pure culture where two different organisms
are growing simultaneously. |
| MUCL : |
acronym of the "Mycothèque de l'Université
catholique de Louvain". |
| Patent deposit : |
deposit of the culture of an organism in a specialized
collection as reference specimen for a patent. |
| Transformed roots : |
excised roots in which a root inducing DNA plasmid
of the bacteria Agrobacterium rhizogenes has been incorporated
in order to sustain their iterative growth without addition of phytohormones. |
| Safe deposit : |
deposit of the culture of an organism in a specialized
collection in order to provide a back up voucher and insure its
availability in case of loss or contamination of the original culture. |
