PLNTPTH 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Entoloma, Basidiomycota, Gametangium

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Plant Pathology
• Course: PLNTPTH 2000
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Rhizopus- type of fungus that grows on strawberry and tomoatoes, grows super fast, white with black tips, Plasmogamy- when two cells combine and become one cell. Haploid- one chromosome ( we are diploid because we have two). Dance group named itself after this fungus because they throw themselves. Uses beta caratine to absorb light (its black). It can shoot out the spores (the video we watched). What are not fungi: fungal like organisms, stromenopiles- share fungal life style but more close to some algae, slime molds, cellular slime molds, not slime molds. Two phyla of true slime molds- but not true fungi: myxomycota, free living with five hundred species, plasmodiophoromycota, endoparasitic with 29 species, obligate parasites of vascular plants, algae, and fungi. General characteristics of slime molds: grow similar as amoeba, lice on organic matter, have three stages, exploring plasmodia growth, establisment of critical arteries, sexual or asexual reproduction.