“The study of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and the AMF symbiosis formed with host plants is complicated by the obligate biotrophic status and subtrerranean nature of the mycobionts involved” (Fortin et al., 2002).

To overcome this, several attempts have been made over the last 25 years to culture these organisms in vitro. This has led to the development of the Glomeromycota IN vitro COllection (GINCO), hosted jointly in Belgium at BCCM™/MUCL (GINCO-BEL) and in Canada at ECORC in charge of CCFC (GINCO-CAN).

This website documents GINCO, the largest collection of AMF exclusively cultured in vitro at the service of the scientific community and industrial sector.

Stéphane Declerck & Yolande Dalpé are the persons in charge of the GINCO collection.

Address : BCCM/MUCL GINCO-BEL Culture Collection Microbiology unit Université catholique de Louvain Place Croix du Sud, 3 bt 6 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve BELGIUM tel. : +32 10 47 46 44 fax : +32 10 45 15 01

Glomus Clarum MUCL 46238 on root organ cultures.

Latest news

Post-doc position
2009-08-24

Dear colleagues,

In the framework of a national project (Biodiversity and ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated to extremophile ecosystems: the example of copper-cobalt outcrops in Katanga (Democratic Republic of Congo)), we have the possibility to apply for a Post-doc position (three years – see document below for details).

The Post-doc project should be introduced by 15 of September with (in case of acceptance) a start on 1st January 2010.

The candidates should have never worked in Belgium and have their PhD since less than five years.

Please send me your CV no later than 1st September 2009.

Best regards,

Stéphane Declerck

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Stéphane Declerck

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PhD positions open
2008-11-20

Two PhD positions are offered in the framework of the EU-funded project VALORAM.
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S. Declerck

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International trainings on in vitro culture of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
2008-11-20

From the 19th to the 24th of April 2009 and from the 14th to the 19th June 2009, CESAMM is proposing two new trainings on the in vitro cultivation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The first one is devoted to the root organ culture technique and the second one to the in vitro cultivation of AM fungi on autotrophic plants.
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S. Declerck and S. Cranenbrouck

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