Herbarium BUNS: Plant gall collection

Abstract

The plant gall collection is part of the Herbarium BUNS collection, University of Novi Sad. Collection began with the formation in 1976, and as a unique type of collection in Serbia, it has existed for 35 years. Today?s collection Herbarium cecidologicum is made of two units - Plant gall collection (dried specimens) and database, and includes 438 data: 294 data for dried specimens and 144 collected literature data about the distribution plant galls. Galls collection has multiple significances: assessment biodiversity (diversity of plants and diversity of causers), estimate the population status of certain causers taxa, primarily invertebrates, monitoring the spread of pests, which usually occurs in population of the cultivated species. Collecting data in one database, providing data on new plant gall species and distribution on both challengers as well as host plants is one of the main tasks of this collection.Savremena istrazivanja biodiverziteta najcesce pocivaju na do sada objavljenim podacima u literaturi i podacima koji su deponovani u bioloskim kolekcijama. Zbog toga je osnovni cilj i zadatak svih javnih kolekcija da podaci o eksikatima budu dobro organizovani u elektronske baze podataka, koje imaju mogucnost jednostavnog i brzog pronalazenja razlicitih tipova podataka i informacija. Herbarijum BUNS je zvanicna botanicka zbirka Univerziteta u Novom Sadu i u njoj je deponovano oko 110.000 eksikata, organizovanih u 14 kolekcija. Jednu od kolekcija cini i zbirka gala (siski, cecidija), koje su sakupljane tokom floristickih istrazivanja, a nakon toga i determinisane i sacuvane kao Herbarium cecidologicum. Ova kolekcija, sa pratecom bazom podataka, predstavlja neprocenjiv izvor informacija o galama u Srbiji, biljkama - domacinima i izazivacima, odnosno o njihovoj distribuciji. Zbirku cine 294 eksikata i preko 100 literaturnih navoda i usmenih saopstenja o distribuciji gala na podrucju Srbije. PR Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 173030