Landcare Research - Manaaki Whenua

Landcare-Research -Manaaki Whenua

ICMP: the International Collection of Microorganisms from Plants

ICMP is a major international collection of plant bacteria, and a repository for micro-organisms of plant and animal origin of the New Zealand Reference Culture Collection.

It also includes cultures of the world's bacterial and fungal plant pathogens and of other micro-organisms closely associated with plants. It contains over 12,000 strains of micro-organisms.