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Lima bean agar cultures of several Cladosporium and Fusicladium species were placed under sterile mineral oil and stored in a refrigerator in 1956. Isolates of C. herbarum, C. fulvum, C. cucumerinum, and F. dendriticum were found to be non-viable in 1983 (after 27 years), but an isolate of C. carpophilum was found to be still viable. Earlier, in 1980, several isolates of C. caryigenum (syn. F. effusum and C. effusum) were found to be viable and capable of sporulating on various agar media (after 24 years). In 1983, re-oiled cultures of surviving C. caryigenum isolates were tested for pathogenicity to its host (Carya illinoensis — the pecan tree). One isolate was found to be still pathogenic.
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Barnes, G.L. Long-term survival of isolates of various Cladosporium and Fusicladium species under mineral oil. Mycopathologia 87, 95–97 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00436635
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