MYCOLOGICAL COLLECTION - Living Phytopathological Museum

The MYCOLOGICAL COLLECTION "Micoteca" is annexed to the formerly Department of Arboriculture, Botany and Plant Pathology and is a section of the "Comes" museum. Mycological collections are the result of research activities in the field of plant pathology; thanks to the scholars Mottareale, Barrese, Savastano and Trotter, a prestigious "Phytopathological School in Portici" was created, still at the center of scientific research in the study of the interactions between pathogen, host plant and environment. The micro-library of living cultures of the former Plant Pathology Institute is one of the most important and prestigious in Italy, thanks to the technical conception and wealth of the collection. Currently, it records 1751 genera and species, isolated in pure culture, of interesting fungi under the biological aspect, of food contamination, entomological, phytopathological, industrial, taxonomic, as Aspergillus, Beauveria, Botrytis, Ceratocystis, Fusarium, Gliocladium, Paecilomyces Penicillium , Phytophthora, Rhizoctonia, Verticillium. The collection of the genus Fusarium, for example, made by prof. Carmine Noviello, today constitutes the reference point for the scholars of the sector; among this taxa numerous isolates are "cultivated", coming from various areas of the world.

Location: Second floor of the Royal Palace. Tel. 081 7755142