Lecture 5 Flashcards
What is Penicillium (anamorphic)
- Discovered by Alexander Fleming 1928
- antibiotic
- treat bacterial infections in WWII
What are examples of a damaging anamorophic fungi
Aspergillus flavus
Fusarium oxysporum
What does Aspergillus flavus do
- produces aflatoxin (a secondary metabolite)
- relatively common contaminant of stored food products eg. dry grains, nuts (liver cancer)
- carcinogenic (vulnerable are AIDS patients and people with low immune strength)
What does Fusarium oxysporum do
- common plant pathogen
- lung disease in AIDS patients
- fungal infection in immuno- suppressed individuals; are a common problem
What is Cyttaria
“Beech strawberry”
- native, edible, ascomycete
- eaten by birds and possums
What are the characteristics of Basidiomycetes
- septate hyphae
- dolipore septa
- parenthesomes
- clamp connection
- basidiospore
- basidium (singular); basidia
What is a dolipore
pore with parenthesomes
What are parenthesomes
restrict the movement of nuclei
What is a clamp connection
ensure distribution of two genetically distinct nuclei to each cell in dikaryotic hyphae (though no clamp connections in rusts and smuts)
What is a basidiospore
sexual spores, primary means of reproduction
true or false; after germination, septa form in hyphae between nuclei, producing monokarytoic cells (homokaryon)
true
What is monokaryon
single nucleus per cell
What is a homokaryon
one type of nucleus throughout
What are the three parts of Basidiomycota fruiting body
sterigma
basidiospores
basidium
How many basidiospores arise from a basidium
4
Where are basidiospores produced
basidia
Where are basidia formed on or in
basidiocarps (basidomata)
true or false; rusts and smuts do not have basidiocarp
true
What are the three subphyla of Basidiomycetes
- ) Agarico-myco- tina
- ) Puccinio-myco-tina
- ) Ustil-agino-myco-tina
When are clamp connections formed
during cell division
How is Basidiomycota classified
on the basis of phylogenetic relationships