Procedure
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Needed Supplies!
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Safety googles
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Safety gloves
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At least 36
sandwich sized plastic baggies
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Soil core
extractor
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12 flags
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Soil test kit
(we used LaMotte soil combination model STH-14 test kit)
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Field notebook
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Lab table
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108 Fungi
nutrient Agar plates |
1. Find 6 plants of the same species (for example: maple, oak, and fern etc.) that traditionally has a relationship with one specific kind of mycorrhizah fungi and label a flag to put at the location of each plant. |
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Find 6 plants of the same species (for example: rhododendron, and
azaleas etc)
that traditionally has a mutual relationship with a different kind
of mycorrhizah fungi and label a flag to put at the location of each
plant. |
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10. Choose the most dilute plate for each soil sample that has mold on it to make your estimates of the number of fungi in the original 1 cc soil sample using the following formula: |
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