[Nhcoll-l] heat treatment

[Elin Ohlsson]

Hi all,

We are having trouble with pest infestation in our herbarium and are considering heat treating a whole room instead of fumigation with toxic gases. (We are already working with cleaning the rooms, freezing and bagging of specimens but it is not enough). Is there anyone with experience of heat treatment in large areas or maybe has any documentation? We are mostly concerned about the effect on DNA.

Thanks for any information

Best regards,

Elin

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Elin Ohlsson
Senior assistant
Department of Cryptogamic botany
08-519 541 52

elin.ohlsson at nrm.se

Swedish Museum of Natural History
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SE- 104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
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