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1
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The basic structural unit of molds

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Hypha

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2
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Colony Color: SURFACE

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Cottony
Velvety
Powdery

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Texture

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Cottony/floccose
Velvety/Suede
Powdery/Granular

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4
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kills any live microorganisms

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Phenol

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5
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preserves fungal structures

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Lactic Acid

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6
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stains the chitin present in the fungal cell wall

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Cotton Blue

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7
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Microscopic methods for examination of fungi

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  1. Tease mount technique
  2. Scotch tape method/Cellophane tape method
  3. Riddell Culture Method / Microculture method
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8
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I. Tease Mount Technique Disadvantage

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Morphology is not intact.

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9
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Tease Mount Technique Advantage

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Widely used method for staining and observing fungi

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10
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Cellophane Tape Mount Disadvantage

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• Only superficial structures of fungi tend to stick to the tape.
• Rarely used technique because of inconvenience

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11
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Cellophane Tape Mount Advantage

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Compared to Tease mount technique, morphology appears intact.

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12
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acropetal

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youngest at the tip

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13
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basipetal

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youngest at the base

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14
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Synchronous Arrangement of conidia
Example

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Aureobasidium pullulans

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15
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Sympodial Arrangement of conidia example

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Beauveria spp

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16
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Types of conidiogenous cells

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• Annelide
• Phialide
• Thallic conidiogenesis

17
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Swells at a tip

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holothallic

18
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Hyphal elements are fragment

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holoarthric

19
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The inner cells forms the conidia

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enteroarthric

20
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Thallic Conidiogenesis

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holothallic
holoarthric
Eneteroarthic

21
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Conidial head morphology of Aspergillus

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biseriate
uniseriate

22
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biseriate

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Aspergillus niger

23
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uniseriate

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Aspergillus fumigatus

24
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Phialidic

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It is a vase like e.g. Phialophora verrucosa

25
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Annelidic

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There is a narrow septum to separate e.g. Scopulariopsis brevicaulis

26
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Septations example

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Amerocinidia
Didymoconidia
Phragmoconidia
Dictyoconidia

27
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1- celled

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ameroconidia

28
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2-celled

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didymoconidia

29
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multi-celled (transverse only)

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phragmoconidia

30
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multicelled (transverse and longitudinal)

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dictyoconidia

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