Cryptogamic facility for molecules, morphology, and natural product chemistry

提出了一种研究真菌和地衣系统学的新设备。这是一个新的设施，因为它将保留传统植物标本馆的分类方面，但消除重复的标本（模式标本和稀有物种除外），以防止过度增长超过所提供的空间的能力。该设施将包括一个用于真菌培养的温度控制培养箱，当成熟时，将在相邻的烤箱中干燥，并储存在金属标本柜中。 显微镜将提供给该设施的用户，数码相机将用于在PC计算机上存储和处理真菌和地衣的图像。这些图像将作为难以培养和维持的物种的研究凭证，它们对于HQP培训自然界中很少观察到的真菌和地衣群非常有价值。这也将为科学界提供可靠的途径，以找到关于难以培养的生物体的信息和相关数据。真菌和地衣生物多样性的研究，利用物种，基因和次级代谢物，移动的元素和基因调控的变化，从分子到形态的理解生态系统是必不可少的。这些标本的适当储存将保留分类学的形态特征，以及研究种群和进化变异的DNA和次级化合物。利用保存完好的标本进行的其他研究可能会导致对移动的元素的移动和植物疾病的传播的理解，或者对药用和生态学上重要的次生化合物的基因调控的理解。

A new facility to study fungal and lichen systematics is proposed. This facility will be novel because it will retain the classification aspect of traditional herbaria but eliminate duplicate specimens (except type specimens and rare species) so that excessive growth beyond the capacity of the space provided will be prevented. The facility will include a temperature controlled incubator for fungal cultures that, when mature, will be dried in an adjacent oven, and stored in metal herbarium cabinets.  Microscopes will be available for the users of the facility and a digital camera will be used to store and manipulate images of fungi and lichens on a PC computer. These images will serve as research vouchers for species that are difficult to culture and maintain, and they will be highly valuable for HQP training of groups of fungi and lichens that are rarely observed in nature. This will also provide reliable access for the scientific community to find information on hard-to-culture organisms and associated data. Studies of fungal and lichen biodiversity, using inventories of species, variation in genes and secondary metabolites, mobile elements, and gene regulation, are essential for understanding ecosystems from the molecule to morphology. Appropriate storage of these specimens will preserve the morphological features for taxonomy, and the DNA and secondary compounds for studying population and evolutionary variation. Other studies using the well preserved specimens may lead to an understanding of the movement of mobile elements and the spread of plant disease, or gene regulation in medicinally and ecologically important secondary compounds.