Ritesh and Gurcharanji: more questions then answers, in my mind about this... I compared your old sp and Ritesh's here has some superficial similar points but no really... but drying may have something to do with it... I dont know about fungi in Botany but in medicine diagnosis of fungi are kind of straight forward ... we do histology and PAS stain with and without diastase at the first step...
generally that answers the id question and then ultimately a DNA fingerprint??? using cutters known to id your specimen's DNA Ritesh ....did you get a herbarium sp for your lab? then its kinda easy to do histology even on dry sp I guess... or rehydrate it.. Usha di === On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Ritesh Kumar Choudhary < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Gurcharan Sir, > > Thanks for raising this question. My identity was based on the herbarium > specimens kept in ASSAM. I may be wrong. Would like to know the correct > identity. > > Best regards, > Ritesh. > > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I have some doubt on this because Balanophora involucrata that we had >> collected in around 1970 or so from J & K looked exactly like a red >> mushroom with cap and stipe and in fact we thought it to be some fungus >> till we discovered flowers. I had published it in Science Reporter as Singh, >> Gurcharan. 1972. A Flowering mushroom? *Science Reporter*. *9*(5): >> 236-237. Here are some links from the net: >> >> >> http://shanbao.growing123.info/flora/balanophora.asp >> http://shanbao.growing123.info/flora/balanophora.asp >> >> >> http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/archive/where_in_the_world/china_2002.php >> >> >> http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/Balanophoraceae/images/Bal_invol2.jpg >> >> >> >> http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/Balanophoraceae/images/BalInvolucrata2.jpg >> >> I am also attaching photograph of my dried specimen >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Nidhan Singh >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Very nice, new for me..thanks Ritesh Ji.. >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> >>> Dr. Nidhan Singh >>> Assisstant Professor >>> Department of Botany >>> I.B. (PG) College >>> Panipat-132103 Haryana >>> Ph.: 09416371227 >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Ritesh Kumar Choudhary, Ph.D. > International Biological Material Research Center > Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology > 125, Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu > Daejeon > South Korea-305-806 > > +82-42-879-8342 (O) > http://www.kribb.re.kr > > > "It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would > make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven > symphony as a variation of wave pressure." -- Albert Einstein > > -- > > > > -- Usha di =========== --
