Lecture 10: Growth & sexual reproduction Flashcards

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spore:

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small, reproductive structures.

DORMANT

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hyphae:

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long, branching filamentous structure. Main mode of vegetative growth

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Mycelium:

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collective name for mass of hyphae

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Mycelium are great of ___, bad for ____

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great for ABSORPTION

bad for WATER LOSS

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5
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fungal diversity is highest in

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tropics

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Germination (Spore –> hyphae) only occurs when conditions are right

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moisture & nutrients

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Hyphae structure:

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chain of cells:
CONTAINING: golgi, vacuole, lipid body, nucleus, mitochondrion, cell wall, plasma membrane.

CELLS SEPARATED BY SEPTUM

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cells in hyphae are surrounded by a

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tubular cell wall

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the major structural polymer in fungal cell walls is typically

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CHITIN - long chain polymer, v tough

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glucans –>

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really long glucose polymers, crosslink the chitin

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4 layers to the fungi cell wall: (INNER TO OUTER)

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  • Chitin microfibrils & protein
  • Mainly protein
  • The reticulum - glucans and protein
  • outer mixed glucans
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FUNCTIONS of the fungi cell wall

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  • maintain cell shape
  • Barrier to external world (e.g. prevents osmotic lysis)
  • molecular sieve
  • cellular protection (melanised for UV protection)
  • physiology (binding site for enzymes)
  • antigenic properties (regulates interactions with other organisms)
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septa are?? (septum)

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  • divide some fungal cell by internal cross-walls
  • usually perforated by large pores (large enough for organelles to flow between cells) -> movement/ communication between cells
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14
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hyphae grow from the

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TIP

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15
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branching:

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outgrowth a little way behind the tip

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hyphae deposition of organelles:

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at growing tip:

  • mitochondrion more abundant (ENERGY)
  • vesicles adding new section to the cel wall
  • denser cytoplasm in younger plants

further in from tip:

  • storage granule(for lipids, glycogen etc)
  • less dense cytoplasm in older parts
  • vacuole
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fungi are heterophiboc/ homophobic?

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heterotrophic: most acquire external sources of food (like animals)

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whats ‘food’ to fungi ?

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simple sugars, polypeptides and more complex carbohydates.

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19
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how do fungi get there food?

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EXTRACELLULAR DIGESTION

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2 types of substances carried in vesicles

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  • carrying digestive enzymes

- cell-wall components

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Extracellular digestion:

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  • golgi apparatus packages proteins into membrane-bound organelles
  • vesicles carrying precursors are transported to the tip along microtubules & actin filaments
  • vesicles fuse and released digestive enzymes (e.g. amylases, lipase, proteases)
  • resulting organic molecules are taken via plasma membrane proteins
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fungal colony structure:

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  • extension zone
  • productive zone
  • fruiting zone
  • aged zone
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extension zone:

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hyphae are extending into the unexploited medium, seeking out fresh nutrients

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productive zone:

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hyphae linked by anastomososis into a network. Net increase in biomass

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Anastomosis:

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fusion between hyphae. Means of communication with itself

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fruiting zone:

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Initiation of fruit bodies. Turnover of storage reserves

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aged zone:

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Decline phase. Hyphae become vacuolated and empty of protoplasmic contents. Autolysis (self-digestion) occurs

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indeterminate growth:

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  • Each ring is a single genototype of Armillaria bulbosa
  • Largest colony found is over 600m in diameter -Growth rate consistently ~ 0.2m per year
  • Age ~ 1500 y
  • Estimate that the fresh weight is at least 10,000kg
  • Communication over large distance maintained by anastomosis
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a spore germinated to form a

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hyphae

30
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collection of hyphae is called a

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mycelium (huge SA)

31
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hyphae grow at the __ and branch __

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Hyphae grow at the tip, branch just behind

32
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Fungi mating types:

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are +/- NOT sexes (m/f)

33
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do all fungi reproduce sexually?

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Notallfungireproducesexuallyand many that do are isogamous; thus, the terms “male” and “female” do not apply.

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isogamy:

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gametes similar size & structure

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homothallic species:

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able to mate with themselves (mate type switching)

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heterothallic species:

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only isolates of opposite mating types can mate.

37
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4 types of fungi (phylogeny)

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  • zygomycota (zygomycetes)
  • imperfect fungi
  • Ascomycota (ascomycetes)
  • Basidiomycota (basidiomycetes)
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2 “higher fungi” (subkingdom Dikarya)

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  • Ascomycota (ascomycetes)

- Basidiomycota (basidiomycetes)

39
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how are the major phyla classified

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  • mainly on the basis of their sexual reproductive structures
  • also hyphae structure
40
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imperfect fungi explanation

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  • no sexual stage known

- polyphyletic group of species not yet placed in any existing group. 25,000 species

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non-septate hyphae

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(aka coenocytic)

  • ZYGOMYCOTA
  • more primitive
  • one cell with many nuclei
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septate hyphae

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  • Ascomycota (ascomycetes)
  • Basidiomycota (basidiomycetes)
  • more advanced
  • dividers (septa) between the cells
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Basidiobycota

-a.k.a Club fungi

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-Includes these groups: Mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, jelly fungi ,boletes, chanterelles, earth stars, smuts, bunts, rusts
~31,500 series described

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Basidium (pl. basidia) are

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microscopic, spore-producing structure. The presence of basidia is one of the main characteristics of the Basidiomycota

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each basidium usually bears

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4 sexual spores (basidiospores)

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Basidiomycota: Sexual reproduction

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1.Spores land and germinate. =HAPLOID (n)
2. Hyphal union. Hyphae fuse and PLASMOGAMY occurs =Dikaryotic (n+n)
3. Fruiting body (BASIDIOCARP) develops aboveground. Gills are lined with HYMENIUM (the tissue layer where the cells develop into basidia)
4. KARYOGAMY occurs (fusion of haploid nuclei) in the basidium
= DIPLOID (2n)
5. Meiosis occurs. Basidiospores are formed and released =HAPLOID (n)

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bioluminescence aids???

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spore dispersal??

  • prosthetic LED-illuminated acrylic mushrooms can be used to study insect behaviour
  • insects that can disperse fungal spores are attracted to light at night
  • Bioluminesecence peaks at night when it is most visible and thus saves energy
  • Why in tropical forests? Little wind flow
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plasmogamy:

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cytoplasm of two parent cells fuses together without the fusion of nuclei

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Dikaryotic:

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the two nuclei of two cells pair off and cohabit without fusing (neither truly diploid or haploid) *CONDITION UNIQUE TO THE FUNGI *

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karyogamy:

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final step in the process of fusing together two haploid eukaryotic cells, and refers specifically to the fusion of the two nuclei

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Ascomycota a.k.a Sac fungi. includes:

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  • yeasts, truffles, morrels and Penicillium, also many animal & plant pathogens
  • Largest phylum of fungi (>64000 sp)
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Ascus (pl. Asci)

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microscopic, sac-like, sexual structure i which spores are formed; defining feature of the Ascomycota

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typically how many spores per ascus

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8

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Ascomycota: sexual reproduction

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  • ascospores (n) release (active or passive)
  • formation of GAMETANGIA
  • nuclei migration
  • dikaryotic mycelium (n+n)
  • fruiting body (ascocarp) forms, including HYMENIUM
  • karyogamy occurs (2n)
  • meiosis
  • mitosis (n)
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Ascomycota: specific mating structure interaction

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-A very fine hyphae (trichogyne) emerges from one gametangium (ascogonium)
• It merges with a gametangium (antheridium) of the other fungal isolate.
• The nuclei in the antheridium then migrate into the ascogonium

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HYMENIUM:

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the tissue layer where the cells develop into asci in the bottom of the cup

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Zygoymcota a.k.a conjugating fungi.

includes:

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  • molds, plant symbionts, pathogens to plants and animals (e.g Fly death fungus)
  • Small phylum of fungi (>1050 sp) and most primitive
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Zygomycota: sexual reproduction

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  • hypha of two different mating types (+/-) come together
  • Gametangia formed (n)
  • Plasmogamy occurs gives zycosporangium
  • fertilisation (karyogamy)
  • DIPLOID (2n) multinucleate zygospore are within zygosporangium
  • meiosis occurs
  • sporangium forms on top of sporangiophore
  • releases spores AND REPEAT
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when does dikaryotic stage occur in all fungi

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between plasmogamy and karyogamy (fertilisation)