[Mycology] Conservation of root samples before staining?

[Deborah Renz]

Hello

I would like to know if it is possible to conserve fresh roots  after 
plant harvest for a longer time (several weeks to month) before they are 
stained to determine %root colonization by AMF. In what a solution 
should I put the roots?

Or is it possible the stain oven-dried roots?

(My plant species are Plantago lanceolata, P. media, Hieracium pilosella 
& Prunella grandiflora; we jused calcareous grassland soil as AMF Inoculum).


Thanks & cheers!
Deborah

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Deborah Renz

Department of Environmental Sciences
Section of Conservation Biology
University of Basel

St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10
CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland

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