Fungi {sing. fungus (L.) = sphongos (Gr.) – sponge} are a kingdom of usually multicellular, eucaryotic, spore-producing, achlorophyllous organisms with absorptive nutrition that generally reproduce both sexually and asexually and whose usually filamentous, branched somatic structures, known as hyphae, typically are surrounded by cell walls. Currently, over 1.5 million species …
Read More »Importance of Fungi part I
Though we usually think of fungi as organisms that cause diseases and rot food, fungi are important to human life on several levels. They are often detrimental and beneficial together. Beneficial role of fungi 1. Decomposer: Nitrogen and carbon recycling in agriculture and forestation. 2. Used as food- i. Edible mushrooms: …
Read More »Importance of Fungi part II
Beneficial role of fungi 5. Fungi in Agriculture: Beneficial aspects iii. Fungi as a biofertilizer potential: Application of Tricoderma hamatum or Trichoderma koningii has been reported to result in a nearly 300% plant yield increase in some greenhouse experiments. Trichoderma harzianum T22 has been shown to increase root development in …
Read More »Slime Molds: The Most Charismatic and Clever Single Cell You’ll Meet Today!
Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to several kinds of unrelated eukaryotic organisms that can live freely as single cells, but can aggregate together to form multicellular reproductive structures. Slime molds were formerly classified as fungi but are no longer considered part of that kingdom. Although not forming …
Read More »Life cycle of Synchytrium endobioticum
Article author: Shawon Gosh Payell Synchytrium endobioticum is one of the chytrid fungi which causes black scab or the wart disease of potato. Though potato is the only cultivated host but Some other plants of the genus Solanum are also infected by it. According to Karling (1964), it has a …
Read More »Oomycetes: Order Peronosporales
Order Peronosporales, Aquatic or terrestrial; parasitic on algae or vascular plants, the latter mostly obligate parasites causing downy mildews; in advanced species, zoosporangia borne on well-differentiated sporangiophores, deciduous and behaving as conidia (asexually produced spores); example genera include Albugo, Peronospora, Bremia, and Plasmopara. Habitat They are aquatic, amphibious and terrestrial species. Forming a highly group …
Read More »Oomycetes: Order Saprolegnia
The oomycetes, also known as “water molds”, are a group of several hundred organisms that include some of the most devastating plant pathogens. The diseases they cause include seedling blights, damping-off, root rots, foliar blights and downy mildews. Some notable diseases are the late blight of potato, downy mildew of …
Read More »Diversity in Living Organisms: Five Kingdom Classification
Our living planet has a huge number of living organisms. We can’t know each of them properly without a proper format that gonna direct us to know this variety and richness of organisms.That’s why we were introduce with a new term-CLASSIFICATION! What is Classification? The system of assembling organisms into …
Read More »Agaricales: Agarics & Boletes
Agaricales is an order of fungi in the class Agaricomycetes (phylum Basidiomycota, kingdom Fungi). It is one of the most diverse orders of the phylum Basidiomycota. Traditionally, agarics were classified based on the presence of gills (thin sheets of spore-bearing cells, or basidia) and mushroom-shaped fruiting bodies. Some other conspicuous …
Read More »Endomycetales with Emphasis on Saccharomycetaceae
Endomycetales is an order of ascomycetous fungi having ascus (pl. asci) developing from a zygote or single cell. One of the families of Endomycetales is Saccharomycetaceae and the members of this family are commonly known as Yeasts. Systematic Position Phylum Ascomycota Class Ascomycetes Order Endomycetales Ascus (pl. asci) developing from …
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