Soil microscopic fungi (micromycetes) produce a number of industrially useful substances - enzymes, unsaturated (omega) fatty acids, antibiotics, pigments. Collections of soil micromycetes are potentially the source of such specific types of fungi, which can be more effective as producers of known substances or as producers completely new substances. The collection of microscopic fungi contains over 2000 strains of predominantly filamentous fungi (ascomycetes, zygomycetes, and anamorphic stages of asko- and basidiomycetes) isolated from a variety of environments (soil, compost, air, cave environment or invertebrate digestive tracts and excrements etc.). The collection is currently a highly unique collection containing specific isolates that are not located in any other collection in the world.
