Summer Exam Flashcards
Current Luca
Monosiga
Fungal phyla
Chytridiomycota, zygomycota, glomeromycota, ascomycota, basidiomycota and microsporidia
Cell walls of microsporidia
Chitin
Lower fungi
Chytidiomycota, zygomycota and glomeromycota
Higer fungi
Ascomycota and basidiomycota
Coenytic
Lower fungi are this. A mass of protoplasm enclosed by one cell wall (no septa)
Enteropathogenic
Pathogen of insects
Entomophthora
Produce enzymes to lose the exoskeleton of insects
Zygospore
Sexual spores
Sporangia
Asexual spores
VA mychorrhiza
Vesicular Arbuscular mycorrhiza
Heterokaryotic
Can carry nuclei with different genetics in the same cell
Dollipores
Hooks that allow cells to link
Puccini graminis
Wheat stem rust
Wheat stem rust
Basidiomycota
Magnaporthe oryzae
Rice blast
Rice blast
Ascomycota
Ustilago maydis
Corn smut
Corn smut
Basidiomycota
Phakospora pachyrhizi
Soya bean rust
Soya bean rust
Basidiomycota
Phytophthora infestans
Potato blight
Potato blight
Heterokontophyta
Parasexuality
Essentially a non-sexual way of transferring genetic material without going through meiosis
Plamogamy
Fusion of hyphae
Karyogamy
Fusion of nuclei
One gene one enzyme hypothesis
Neurospora crassa
Heterothallic
Sexual and asexual reproduction
Homothallic lifestyle
Asexual
Pseudo-homothallic lifestyle
Inbetween the two lifestyles. Forms ascospores but with DNA cross over
Soy sauce
Aspergillosis oryzae
Beta lactam antibiotics
Penicillium chrysogenum and cephalosporium acremonium
Heterokogus host
Unlike host
Amylase from
A. Niger
Cellulase from
A. Niger
Laccase from
P. Chrysosporium
Lag phase
Where innoculant builds
Exponential phase
Fungus actively using up nutrients
Stationary phase
Corresponds to when secondary metabolites are produced
Solid state fermentation
Koji process (surface cultures, constant temp)
Submerged liquid fermentation
Chemostats
Batch culture
Feed and harvest. Clean in between
Fed batch
Feed, check quality, harvest bit, continue
Continuous culture
Dangerous due to metabolic fluctuations
Mutagenesis
Used for strain improvements to try to make more money
Cyclosporins
Immunosuppressants
Ergot alkaloids
Claviceps purpurea (delirium) and ergotamine (child birth)
Lavastatin
Suppresses cholesterol
Itaconic acid
Asbestos substitute
Glauconic acid
Food stiffener
Fumaric acid
Food ph reg
Cellulose biodegradation enzymes
Endoglucanses, cellobiohydrolases and beta glucosidases
LUCA
The last common ancestor
Lignin depolymerised by
Ligninase and Mn-perodidases
Citric acid
Produced by a. Niger from glucose at ph2
Lichen
Mutualistic associations between a fungus and a photosynthetic partner
In a lichen the fungus is
The mycobiont
In a lichen the photosynthetic partner is
The phytobiont
Percentages in a lichen
90% fungus and rest partner
Crustose
Crust like and adhere to the surface they grow on
Foliose
Leaf like and compose of flat sheets of loosely bound tissue
Squamulose
Scale like lichen
Foliose
Leaf like and composed for flat sheets of loosely bound tissue
Fruticose
Composed for free standing branching tubes
Structure of a lichen
Upper cortex
10-15um phytobiont layer
500um fungal hyphae medulla
3 ways of lichen reproduction
Sexual, asexual and vegetative reproduction
Mycorrhizae
Plant- fungus mutualisms
Chaenopodiacease
Only plants that don’t form mycorrhizae
Mycorhizae enhance plant grow by
Increased SA, mobilising nutrients and scavenging
Arbuscular mycorrhizae
Dominant form, e.g. VAM
VAM
Vesicular Arbuscular mycorrhizae
Ectomycorrhizae
Found in coniferous Forests