The inoculum will be mailed usually within 72 hrs of receipt of payment. If stocks are too low to mail out immediately, the solicitor will be contacted by phone, fax, or e-mail and informed of the situation. At that time, substitute cultures will be recommended if the inoculum is needed quickly or an estimated ship date will be provided. In order to help solicitor to verify ACT inoculum, to purchase a voucher specimen for a requested item was recommended. Living spores Vials of cleaned spores of individual isolates can be requested for teaching or research purposes.
Less inoculum is obtained, but the solicitor is guaranteed of spore purity and identity.
This option has been used by molecular biologists and other researchers who have no experience with these fungi or do not understand their taxonomy. The cost of each vial is identical to that of whole inoculum when supplied for research or commercial purposes. A free sample of spore solution could be available for teaching. Preserved spores Vials of spores preserved in sodium azide also can be requested for teaching demonstrations or as vouchers in a research program. All vials will contain spores that have been stored in ACT's voucher collection for less than 30 days.