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A Rapid Slide-Mount Technique for Agar-Grown Fungal Cultures. H. J. Larsen, Jr., Research technologist III, Tree Fruit Research Center, Wenatchee, WA 98801; R. P. Covey, Jr., associate professor, Tree Fruit Research Center, Wenatchee, WA 98801. Phytopathology 69:682-683. Accepted for publication 23 January 1979. Copyright 1979 The American Phytopathological Society. DOI: 10.1094/Phyto-69-682.

A rapid slide-mount technique was developed that used the melting of the agar substrate on the slide in a drop of suitable stain or mounting medium. The technique facilitated routine examinations of conidium-conidiophore relationships and submerged mycelial structures.