About CFBP
 
 

About CFBP
               
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French Collection of Plant associated bacteria (CFBP) is a collection of International Center for Microbial Resources (CIRM).

                     

Aims
The French collection of plant associated bacteria is an international reference for the genetic resources of plant pathogenic bacteria.
Its role is to preserve these biological resources and associated information which are deposited there, and to provide them to the international community for research/development/teaching/identification purposes.

History
The French collection of plant associated bacteria was officially set up in 1973 on the basis of significant collections of the phytobacteriology laboratory of the INRA research center of Angers-Nantes. At the beginning it thus primarily consisted of strains isolated by plant bacteriologists from the INRA research centers of Angers and Versailles.
Nowadays, strains are also provided by other scientists from French research institutes (INRA, IRD, CIRAD...), or from foreign countries (Switzerland, Syria, Algeria, United States, India...). Some strains, mainly type strains, have been introduced from other bacterial collections.

You can view video reports carried out by the "Atlantech-Pays de la Loire":
- click on this link and select the course of Régine Samson http://patrimoine.atlantech.fr/atlantech/foffice/portail/edito/ressources/parcourir/parcours.html
- for historical documents on the CFBP, select choice 5

Content of the collection
Most of the strains are plant pathogenic bacteria. CFBP also includes saprophyte strains or strains closely associated to plants (phytocommensales and rhyzobacteria). CFBP currently comprises 5400 strains, belonging mainly to the genera Acidovorax, Agrobacterium, Bacillus, Brenneria, Burkholderia, Clavibacter, Curtobacterium, Dickeya, Enterobacter, Erwinia, Pantoea, Pectobacterium, Pseudomonas, Ralstonia, Rhatayibacter, Rhodococcus, Streptomyces, Xanthomonas and Xylophilus.

Conservation of the strains
The strains are preserved freeze-dried and the stocks maintained in two separate places. A duplicate of the collection preserved at -80°C is under constitution.

CFBP team

 


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