Acknowledgements
Please feel free to contact the curators (contact information on the Q-bank fungal main page) if you want to contribute data to the database. Click on this sentence to obtain the guidelines / minimum requirements for contributions.
The following institutes contributed to the Q-bank Fungi database:
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Q-bank Fungi is grateful for the time, effort and data the following persons contributed and which represent the bulk of the data in the database:
- Ceratocystis and Monilinia: Peter Bonants, Els Verstappen en Annette Dullemans (PRI, Wageningen, Netherlands)
- Colletotrichum: Ulrike Damm and Joyce Woudenberg (CBS-KNAW, Utrecht, Netherlands)
- Mycosphaerella and its anamorphs: William Quaedvlieg, Pedro Crous and Ewald Groenewald (CBS-KNAW, Utrecht, Netherlands)
- Melampsora, Puccinia, Thecaphora and Verticillium: James Woodhall and Neil Boonham (The Food and Environment Research Agency, United Kingdom); Willmer Pérez Barrera and Soledad Gamboa (International Potato Centre, Peru)
- Phoma and Phoma-like genera: Maikel Aveskamp, Joyce Woudenberg and Pedro Crous (CBS-KNAW, Utrecht, Netherlands); Hans de Gruyter (Plant Protection Service/National Reference Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands)
- Phytophthora: Henk Brouwer and Arthur de Cock (CBS-KNAW, Utrecht, Netherlands)
- Stenocarpella: Sandra Lamprecht (ARC, Stellenbosch, South Africa), Pedro Crous and Ewald Groenewald (CBS-KNAW, Utrecht, Netherlands)
The following persons/institutes contributed specimen(s) and/or DNA to the Q-bank Fungi database:
Dr. Panaghiotis (Panos) Tsopelas, NAGREF- Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems, Athens, Greece
Dr. James Cunnington, Dept. of Primary Industries, Knoxfield, Australia
Dr. Sandra Lamprecht, Soilborne Plant Diseases Unit, Agricultural Research Council, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Dr. Renaud IOOS, Anses, Plant Health Laboratory (LSV) Mycology unit, Malzéville, France
Prof. Michael J. Wingfield, FABI, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Prof. Jared LeBoldus, North Dakota State University Fargo, USA
Dr. Audrius Kačergius, Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania