University of Tartu Natural History Museum collection comprises 370,000 tissues representing plants, fungi and lichens, more than 250,000 tissues representing animals, 1,500 soil samples and 2,000 living cultures of fungi, in addition to 30,000 DNAs. Collections are estimated to represent more than 50,000 species of macroorganisms and greater than 100,000 species of microorganisms.

DNA and Environmental Sample Collections

Collection consists 30000 extracted DNA samples from molecular lab workflow containing mainly soil, plant and fungal samples. Samples are digitalized in https://plutof.ut.ee/ workbench and connected with relevant metadata.

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