Original paper
Additions to the culture collection of algae at Göttingen since 1997
Schlösser, U. G.; Friedl, T.
Nova Hedwigia Band 71 Heft 1-2 (2000), p. 243 - 262
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published: Sep 3, 2000
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Abstract
The “Sammlung von Algenkulturen Göttingen” (SAG) is a non-profit institution located at the University of Göttingen which not only maintains an important resource of algal biodiversity, but offers all its algal strains to the scientific community for research purposes. In addition, the SAG also provides algal cultures for teaching and industry. The SAG concentrates on microscopic algae that are from freshwater or terrestrial habitats, but also maintains a great number of marine species. Pure cultures of algae form the basis for most of the experimental research where algae are involved as well as for studies on the evolution and systematics of algae. Although established in 1954 at Göttingen University, the history of the SAG traces back to the early 1920s when E. G. Pringsheim and his collaborators isolated a first stock of cultures at the “Deutsche Universität”, Prague. For a brief history of the SAG see Schlösser (1994, 1998). Recently the formerly independent SAG became integrated into the department of Experimental Phycology at the Albrecht-von-Haller Institute for Plant Sciences. The University of Göttingen generously supports the culture collection of algae with personnel, culture facilities, and laboratories that were renovated just recently. With the retirement of U. G. Schlösser as the curator end of 1999, the responsibility for the culture collection is now at T. Friedl, and the curatorship is now at Dr. Maike Lorenz.
Keywords
algae • cultures • Chlorarachniophyta • Chlorophyta • Cyanobacteria • Heterokontophyta • Rhodophyta • Streptophyta