Fungal feature tracker (FFT): A tool for quantitatively characterizing the morphology and growth of filamentous fungi.

ABSTRACT: Filamentous fungi are ubiquitous in nature and serve as important biological models in various scientific fields including genetics, cell biology, ecology, evolution, and chemistry. A significant obstacle in studying filamentous fungi is the lack of tools for characterizing their growth and morphology in an efficient and quantitative manner. Consequently, assessments of the growth of filamentous fungi are often subjective and imprecise. In order to remedy this problem, we developed Fungal Feature Tracker (FFT), a user-friendly software comprised of different image analysis tools to automatically quantify different fungal characteristics, such as spore number, spore morphology, and measurements of total length, number of hyphal tips and the area covered by the mycelium. In addition, FFT can

SUBMITTER: Vidal-Diez de Ulzurrun G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6822706 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature