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Using viruses to kill off contaminations such as Trichorderma


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I'm starting an experiment soon involving eliminating contaminations such as green bread mold and various bacteria. I have access to a college lab and an expert on bacteriophage, but I plan to start with the Trichoderma and haven't been able to find much on it as far as viruses go. Does anyone know if a virsus has been identified that attacks this family and if it can be purchased or the most likely place I can find it, such as soil or water? I figure I'll start out a lot of petri dishes of agar with cultured Trichoderma and start exposing it to various things, like soil samples if a virus can't be purchased.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

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This is kind of funny as Trichoderma species are often used as biocontrol agents themselves (they tend to be mycoparasites). Isolating a virus would take a tremendous amount of work, and proper isolation and characterization would be a whole project, not a simple experiment (also note that many viruses do not kill of their host).

That being said, I am not an expert in this field and would not know any specific viruses off the top of my head. But a quick search did not reveal repositories with appropriate viruses.

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