Maintenance of the ATCC Collection of Living Fungi

自1925年以来，科学界已经认可位于马里兰州罗克维尔的美国类型文化收藏（ATCC），作为提供用于教育，研究和开发的活真菌培养物的高质量的象征。质量和由此产生的科学信心是在世界各地科学家长期、持续和大量努力之后实现的。它是美国唯一的活真菌（包括酵母）的一般服务收集，由超过23,000株代表超过6,000种组成。近5年来，共获得病原菌3767株，培养菌35039株。作为一个国家资源中心，该集合的功能不仅包括对参考文化和类型文化的接入、保存、认证和分发，还包括为所维护的每种文化创建和操作数据文件。它还作为真菌学所有学科的信息交流中心，传播有关菌株的可用性、命名、分类、表征、保存技术以及真菌培养在研究和解决人类问题方面的应用的信息，涉及食品、能源、健康和环境污染。根据ATCC董事会制定的章程，ATCC代表着100,000多名生命科学专业人员，真菌培养收藏将继续履行ATCC的使命，将所有命名的真菌分类群以及对当代研究，特别是对生物技术具有科学意义的菌株纳入收藏。提高收购的质量和与收藏相关的服务的效率。该奖项为ATCC为国内和国际真菌研究界提供的服务功能提供部分业务补贴。

The scientific community has, since 1925, recognized the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) in Rockville, Maryland, as a symbol of top quality in providing living fungus cultures for use in education, research and development. The quality and the resulting scientific confidence have been achieved after a long, continuous and substantial effort by scientists throughout the world. It is the only general service collection of living fungi (including yeasts) in the United States, consisting of over 23,000 strains representing more than 6,000 species. During the last five years, a total of 3,767 strains were accessioned and 35,039 cultures were distributed. As a national resource center, the collection's functions include not only the accessioning, preservation, authentication, and distribution of reference and type cultures, but also the creation and manipulation of data files for each culture maintained. It also acts as an information clearing house in all the disciplines of mycology by disseminating information pertaining to the availability of strains, nomenclature, classification, characterization, preservation techniques, and applications of fungus cultures to the study and solution of human problems involving food, energy, health and environmental pollution. In compliance with the ATCC constitution set forth by the Board of Trustees, which represents over 100,000 professionals in the life sciences, the fungal culture collection will continue to pursue the ATCC mission of bringing into the collection all named fungal taxa as well as strains of scientific significance to contemporary research, particularly to biotechnology, and enhancing the quality of acquisitions and the efficiency of services associated with the collection. This award provides a partial operational subsidy to the ATCC for its service functions to the national and international fungal research community.