REPRODUCTION OF     DEUTEROMYCETES        Commonly called molds, Deuteromycetes are ” Second-class ” fungi carrying no sexual state in their life cycle, reproduced by means of special spores known as conidia (sing. conidium) via mitosis. This state of asexual fungi called Anamorph. In other words, this imperfect fungi …

    ASPERGILLUS Aspergillus was first catalogued in 1729 by the Italian priest and biologist Pier Antonio Micheli. Viewing the fungi under a microscope, Micheli was reminded of the shape of an aspergillum (holy water sprinkler), from latin spargere (to sprinkle), and named the genus accordingly.  Aspergillum is an asexual spore-forming …

Deuteromycetes- also known as Deuteromycota, Deuteromycotina, fungi imperfecti and mitosporic fungi- are fungi that are unable to produce sexual spores and are therefore placed in their own separate phylum. It is an artificial group of fungi, of which there exist approximately 15000 species. Deuteromycetes are often reffered to as “fungi …