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Fungi (Chapter 31)

2. Pink ear rot of corn

3. Fungi
Are they always a nuisance?

4. Mold in the shower

5. Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus)
Death Cap (Amanita phalloides)

6. Mycorrhizae: Fungus living in a mutualistic symbiosis with plant roots

7. Fungal production of an antibiotic

8. Budding yeast

9. psilocybin
Psilocybes
serotonin

10. Dutch Elm Disease

12. Decomposers
Mycology: Study of Fungi

13. 31.2 Structure of a multicellular fungus

14. Septate hyphae (left) and nonseptate (coenocytic) hyphae (right)
31.3

15. A fairy ring

16. 31.1. Can you spot the largest organism in this forest?

17. 31.6. Mold: Asexually-reproducing, rapidly-growing fungus (Penicillium)
Yeast: Asexually-reproducing, single-celled fungus

18. Fungi may be Saprobes (absorb nutrients from dead organic material)
Parasites (absorb nutrients from live organic material)

19. 31.25. Examples of fungal diseases of plants.

20. Strawberries with Botrytis mold, a plant parasitic fungus

21. Fungi may be Saprobes (absorb nutrients from dead organic material)
Parasites (absorb nutrients from live organic material)
Predators

22. 31.4 Specialized fungal hyphae

24. Fungi may be Saprobes (absorb nutrients from dead organic material)
Parasites (absorb nutrients from live organic material)
Predators
Mutualistic symbionts

25. 31.23. Lichens (mutualism between an alga/cyanobacterium and a fungus)

26. 31.24 Anatomy of a lichen

27. Fungus
Anatomy of a lichen
Algal cells

28. Mycorrhizae: Fungus living in a mutualistic symbiosis with plant roots

29. An experimental test of the benefits of mycorrhizae (soybean plants) Compare with Inquiry Do endophytes (fungi within plants) benefit a woody plant

30. 31.22 Fungal-animal mutualistic symbiosis
Leaf cutting ants depend on fungi to convert plant material into ant food. Ants feed the fungi the leaves

31. Which of the following statements is sufficient by itself to identify an unknown organism as belonging to the kingdom Fungi?
It is multicellular and non-photosynthetic.
It has cell walls and reproduces by spores.
It has filamentous growth and obtains its food by absorption.
It has prokaryotic cells, and cell walls made of chitin.
It is unicellular and eukaryotic.

32. 31.5 Generalized life cycle of fungi

33. Phylogeny of fungi

34. 31.11. Exploring fungal diversity.

35. Deuteromycetes (imperfect fungi)
Fungi without known sexual stages that cannot (yet) be classified.

36. Phylogeny of fungi

37. 31.10 Chytridiomycota (chytrids) – aquatic (~1,000 species)
Flagellated stage (zoospore)
Some chytrids are devastating amphibian populations

38. Phylogeny of fungi

39. The common mold Rhizopus decomposing strawberries
Zygomycota - Conjugating Fungi

40. 31.13 The life cycle of the zygomycete Rhizopus (black bread mold)

41. Young zygosporangium

42. Mature zygosporangium

43. Dung cannon fungus (Pilobolus crystallinus) on rabbit pellets.

44. Phylogeny of fungi

45. Glomeromycetes: Arbuscular mycorrhizae with hyphae tips that push into plant roots and branch into tiny tree-like structures

46. Phylogeny of fungi

47. Sac Fungi: Ascomycetes - Life cycle (31.17)

48. Mature ascus with ascospores
Antheridia
Developing asci
Mature ascus with ascospores

49. Budding yeast

50. 31.16. Ascomycetes (sac fungi)
Scarlet cup
Truffles
Morel

51. A moldy orange (left), Penicillium (right)

52. Phylogeny of fungi

53. 31.19. The life cycle of a mushroom-forming basidiomycete

54. Gills (reproduction)

55. Basidiomycetes (club fungi): Greville's bolete (top left), turkey tail (bottom left), stinkhorn (right)

56. Coprinus comatus, Shaggy Mane

57. Amanita

58. Review of Fungal Phyla (p. 652)

59. What is the fungal process that has the opposite effect on chromosome number than the effect of meiosis?
Mitosis
Plasmogamy
Crossing over
Binary fission
Karyogamy