What the ARP has accomplished since Fall, 1988:
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        				(current as of May, 1998)      

        Number of samples received:             240
              

        Number of viable A. bisporus:           179
                    

        Number of new populations discovered:     1
              

        Number of new taxa published:             1
              

        Number of publications enabled:           19   
               

        Amount of bounties paid out:         $ 5895.00
              

        Amount of costs reimbursed:          $ 1337.20
              

        Herbarium support provided:          $  600.00
              

It is difficult to quantitatively summarize the genetic novelty obtained 
via the ARP.  Numerous new alleles at nuclear marker loci, and several 
new mtDNA haplotypes, have been found in the collection.  Ten of 
fourteen known mating types are available only from ARP strains 
(Imbernon et al. 1995)