Quaid-i-Azam University Fungi Collection (ISL)
My group actively involve in the collection of fungi belonging to various groups including lichens, mushrooms and plant pathogenic fungi. We collect the specimens from under sampled and ignored sites of Pakistan and dried them using fan heater. Dried collections are then packed in ziplock bags along with the voucher code, including the necessary field data (date of collection, locality, associated host and coordinates etc.). Field photographs of the specimens are also taken to describe them macromorphologically. Then the specimens are analysed by using molecular and morphological tools. Micromorphological parameters of mushrooms are examined using microscope and nuclear ribosomal DNA (ITS and 28S) are amplified and phylogenetic analysis are conducted to accurately identify the species.
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