Preserving US microbe collections sparks future discoveries.

Autor: Boundy-Mills K; Phaff Yeast Culture Collection, Food Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA., McCluskey K; Department of Plant Pathology, Fungal Genetics Stock Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA., Elia P; Soybean Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, USDA-ARS Rhizobium Germplasm Resource Collection, Beltsville, MD, USA., Glaeser JA; Center for Forest Mycology Research, USDA-Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Madison, WI, USA., Lindner DL; Center for Forest Mycology Research, USDA-Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Madison, WI, USA., Nobles DR Jr; UTEX Culture Collection of Algae, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., Normanly J; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA., Ochoa-Corona FM; National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA., Scott JA; Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada., Ward TJ; USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Peoria, IL, USA., Webb KM; Soil Management and Sugar Beet Research Unit, USDA-ARS, Fort Collins, CO, USA., Webster K; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.; Institute of Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA., Wertz JE; E. coli Genetic Stock Center, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of applied microbiology [J Appl Microbiol] 2020 Aug; Vol. 129 (2), pp. 162-174. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Dec 12.
DOI: 10.1111/jam.14525
Abstrakt: Collections of micro-organisms are a crucial element of life science research infrastructure but are vulnerable to loss and damage caused by natural or man-made disasters, the untimely death or retirement of personnel, or the loss of research funding. Preservation of biological collections has risen in priority due to a new appreciation for discoveries linked to preserved specimens, emerging hurdles to international collecting and decreased funding for new collecting. While many historic collections have been lost, several have been preserved, some with dramatic rescue stories. Rescued microbes have been used for discoveries in areas of health, biotechnology and basic life science. Suggestions for long-term planning for microbial stocks are listed, as well as inducements for long-term preservation.
(© 2019 The Authors. Journal of Applied Microbiology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society for Applied Microbiology.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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