The development of the FACHB could be traced back
into 3 stages. Stage 1: In the 19960¡¯s, based on the wide range of liminoloical
investigations and surveys on the distribution of nitrogen-fixing blue-green
algae in the Department of Phycology, a great deal of microalgae especially
nitrogen-fixing blue-green algae strains were isolated and kept into the
FACHB. Stage 2: In the 1970¡¯s the problem of worldly protein food shortage
was continuously raised and the single-cell protein was then thought to
be a solution to the problem. The FACHB therefor concentrated on the isolation
of single celled algae, especially focused on the isolation of single cell
green algae and diatoms. Stage 3: featured the increase of strains of toxic
freshwater algae when the problem of water-bloom become more and more serious
in China in the 1980¡¯s. Most of strains collected in the FACHB were isolated
from different kinds of water bodies and soils in China, with some strains
derived from the exchange with other culture collection, particularly from
Professor Richard Starr of the Culture Collection of Algae at the University
of Texas. At present, the FACHB maintains over 600 strains of algae belong
to 9 phylum. Most of the strains stored in unialgal culture, a few in axenic
culture. Apart from maintaining, isolating and distributing strains, which
are the main activities of the FACHB , the Collection has also been conducting
researches on toxic cyanobacteria and red-tide algae and some economically
potential organisms, etc.
Upon requirement, the FACHB opens to distribute
strains domestically and internationally. The charge per culture is 15
USD for academic users and 30 USD for all others.
Director: Lirong Song, Ph.D.,
Freshwater Algae Culture Collection of the CAS, FACHB
Institute of Hydrobiology£¬The Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wuhan 430072, P.R. China
Tel:027-87647715
Fax:027-87875132
Email: lrsong@ihb.ac.cn
Staff members in Freshwater Algae culture collection
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The culture room of Freshwater Algae
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