Biology 4218A Study Guide - Moniliophthora Perniciosa, Chlorophyll, Xylem

• School: Western University
• Department: Biology
• Course: Biology 4218A
• Professor: Richard Gardiner

Document Summary

Myxomycetes (slime) multinucleate plasmodium, stalked sporangia, phagocytosis (bacteria) Plasmodiophora brassicae (roots of cabbage plants, converted to thick walled resting sporangia for winter) Chytridiomycetes (wart fungi) zoospores uniflagellate, endoparasitic on potato, hypertrophy + hyperplasia = galls/warts on roots and tubers. Oomycetes (water moulds) oogonia/antheridia, oospores thick walled, biflagellate zoospores, sporangia, peronsporales. Zygomycetes (black moulds) mucorales, soft rot of fleshy fruits/veggies, thick walled zygospores, and black sporangia. Ascomycetes ascus layer in blister, naked asci, yeast phase, budding ascospores. Taphrina deformans (peach leaf curl: cleistothecia + perithecia. Rhytisma acerinum (tar spot of maple: apothecial (sclerotium/mummified fruit) Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (white mold of beans: deuteromycetes (spots + blights, conidia) Alternaria solani (blight or leaf spot of tomato) Botrytis cinerea (gray mould and blight of fruit) Basidiomycetes: teliomycetes (4 celled basidium, uredinales, alternate hosts, black teliospores, yeast phase for basidiospores, ustilago maydis (corn smut, aphyllophorales/agaricales (holobasidium, polypores and mushrooms, tree disease/decay, rhizoctonia/ thanatephorus, white and brown rot of logs, dry rot of wood.