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Fungus overview

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Fungi are diverse and widespread

  • They are essential for the well-being of most terrestrial ecosystems because they break down organic material and recycle vital nutrients
  • About 100,000 species of fungi described
  • It is estimated there are actually 1.5 million species of fungi
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Fungi body structure

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  • Most fungi have hyphae divided into cells by septa, with pores allowing cell-to-cell movement of organelles
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  • Coenocytic fungi
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lack septa and have a continuous cytoplasmic mass with hundreds or thousands of nuclei

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Specialized Hyphae in Mycorrhizal Fungi

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haustoria

allows them to penetrate tissues of their host

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Sexual Reproduction for fungi

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  • Plasmogamy
  • In most fungi, haploid nuclei from each parent do not fuse right away; they coexist in the mycelium, called a heterokaryon
  • In some fungi, haploid nuclei pair off two to a cell; such a mycelium is said to be dikaryotic

karyogamy

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  • Plasmogamy
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the union of cytoplasm from two parent mycelia

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Karyogamy

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nuclear fusion

  • During karyogamy, haploid nuclei fuse, producing diploid
    cells
  • Diploid phase is short-lived and undergoes meiosis, producing haploid spores
  • The paired processes of karyogamy and meiosis produce genetic variation
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Asexual Reproduction

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many fungi can reproduce asexually

  • Moulds produce haploid spores by mitosis and form
    visible mycelia

Other fungi that
reproduce asexually
are yeasts, which are
single cells

  • yeasts reproduce
    asexually by simple cell
    division and pinching of
    “bud cells” from a parent cell
  • Yeasts can reproduce
    sexually as well

not as common

haploid

spores are produced by mitosis

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  • Fungi and animals are more closely related to-
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each other than they are to plants or other eukaryotes

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  • Fungi, animals, and their protistan relatives form-
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the opisthokonts clade

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Chytrids

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(phylum Chytridiomycota)

found in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats

They can be decomposers, parasites, or mutualists

  • Chytrids are unique among fungi in having flagellated spores, called zoospores
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The zygomycetes

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(phylum Zygomycota)

They include fast-growing moulds, parasites, and
commensal symbionts

  • Life cycle of black bread mould (Rhizopus stolonifer) is fairly typical of the phylum
  • Its hyphae are coenocytic
  • Asexual sporangia produce haploid spores
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  • Fungi exhibit diverse lifestyles
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– Decomposers
– Parasites
– Mutualists

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  • Glomeromycetes
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(phylum Glomeromycota)

were once considered zygomycetes

They now classified in a separate clade

  • form arbuscular mycorrhizae
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Ascomycetes

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(phylum Ascomycota)

live in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats

produce sexual spores in saclike asci contained in fruiting bodies called ascocarps

  • Commonly called sac fungi

vary in size and complexity from unicellular yeasts to elaborate cup fungi and morels

include plant pathogens, decomposers, and symbionts

reproduce asexually by enormous numbers of asexual spores called conidia

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How do conidias (assexual spores) differ from those within the zygomycetes

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Conidia are not formed inside sporangia; they are
produced asexually at the tips of specialized hyphae called conidiophores

  • Neurospora crassa, a bread mould, is a model organism with a well-studied genome
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Basidomycetes

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(phylum Basidiomycota)

include mushrooms, puffballs, and shelf fungi, mycorrhizae, and plant parasites

The phylum is defined by a clublike structure called a
basidium, a transient diploid stage in the life cycle

  • Basidiomycetes also called club fungi
  • Many basidiomycetes are decomposers of wood
  • Life cycle of basidiomycete usually includes long-lived
    dikaryotic mycelium

In response to environmental stimuli, the mycelium reproduces sexually by producing elaborate fruiting bodies
called basidiocarps

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Fungi interact with other organisms as-

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decomposers, mutualists, and pathogens

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Fungi as Decomposers

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Fungi are efficient decomposers of organic material including cellulose and lignin

  • They perform essential recycling of chemical elements between the living and nonliving world
  • Approaches to use fungi in bioremediation projects are
    being developed
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Fungi as Mutualists

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Fungi form mutualistic relationships with plants, algae, cyanobacteria, and animals

  • All of these relationships have profound ecological effects
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Fungus-Plant Mutualisms

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Mycorrhizae are enormously important in natural ecosystems and agriculture

  • Plants harbour harmless symbiotic endophytes, fungi that live inside leaves or other plant parts
  • Endophytes make toxins that deter herbivores and defend against pathogens
  • Most endophytes are ascomycetes
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Fungus-Animal Mutualisms

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Some fungi share their digestive services with animals

  • These fungi help break down plant material in the guts of cows and other grazing mammals
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Fungus-Animal Symbioses

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Many species of ants use the digestive power of fungi by raising them in “farms”

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Lichens

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A lichen is a symbiotic association between a
photosynthetic microorganism and a fungus

Millions of photosynthetic cells are held in a mass of fungal hyphae

  • The photosynthetic component is green algae or cyanobacteria
  • The fungal component is most often an ascomycete

The symbioses are so complete that lichens are given scientific names

  • Algae or cyanobacteria occupy an inner layer below the lichen surface
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Algae in lichen

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The algae provide carbon compounds, cyanobacteria also provide organic nitrogen, and fungi provide the environment for growth

  • The fungi of lichens can reproduce sexually and asexually
  • Asexual reproduction is by fragmentation or formation of soredia, small clusters of hyphae with embedded algae

Lichens are important pioneers on new rock and soil surfaces

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Fungi as Pathogens

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About 30% of known fungal species are parasites or
pathogens, mostly on or in plants

  • Each year, 10% to 50% of the world’s fruit harvest is lost due to fungi
  • Some fungi that attack food crops are toxic to humans
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Animals are much less susceptible to-

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parasitic fungi than
are plants

  • The chytrid Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis might be the
    cause of the recent decline in amphibians worldwide
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septate hypha

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divided by septa,

haploid nuclei

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what are haustoria

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penitrates tissues of the host

30
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zygotic meiosis

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-zygote only diploid state so meiosis to make spores

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