Article: U.S. ARS: U.S. national fungus collection available on web

M2 PRESSWIRE-17 July 1998-U.S. ARS: U.S. national fungus collection available on web (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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If it's a fungus and it's connected to farming, you can now look it up--anytime--on the World Wide Web. That's because the Agricultural Research Service has posted to the web its new, computerized database for the world's largest collection of agriculturally important fungi.

The web address is:

http://nt.ars-grin.gov/fungaldatabases/databaseframe. cfm

The new database compiled by ARS mycologists (fungal experts) holds records for 650,000 specimens. These agriculturally important fungi are among more than a ...

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