[Prolonged storage of fungal culture collections on agarized media]

The study of the efficacy of storage of 300 fungal cultures on agarized media with repeated passages showed that the survival level of the fungi stored with this method may serve an additional biological characteristics for some species: Penicillium chrysogenum, Penicillium sclerotiorum and others. When the fungi were stored on agarized media with repeated passages for a prolonged period of time, there were observed lower levels of sporulation, sclerotia formation and pigmentation in some cultures.