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CHAP is a UK Agri-Tech Centre funded by Innovate UK, and brings together leading scientists, farmers, advisors, innovators and businesses to understand industry challenges, drive research and innovation and develop and trial solutions that transform crop systems.
CABI
Sophie Lane
National Reference Collection Technician
01904 217932
Yes
Publicly available (qualified curator, collection management policies, microbial specimens, a database of collection information, an online strain catalog, and distributes strains to the scientific community)
OECD Best Practices Guidelines for Biological Resource Centres (https://www.oecd.org/health/biotech/oecdbestpracticeguidelinesforbiologicalresourcecentres.htm), World Federation for Culture Collections Guidelines (http://www.wfcc.info/guidelines/)
Fungi, Bacteria, Seeds, pest insect larvae, environmental spore trap samples.
Plant pathogens found and isolated in the UK could become reference strains in future.
With the support of CABI (a CHAP partner, and host of the National Reference Collection) training around culture collection management and preservation techniques can be facilitated.
Innovate UK
Fee per strain for distribution
Storage service (safe deposit), Strain isolation/taxonomic identification, Custom material preparation (such as genomic DNA/RNA)
Preservation, Shipment regulations
Grain crops, Fruits, Vegetables, Insects, Soil, Built Environment
Agriculture, Culture and preservation methods, Freeze drying and cryopreservation, General microbiology, Genetics, Industrial microbiology, Molecular biology, Plant pathology