In this article we will discuss about the economic importance and somatic structures of deuteromycetes. This is a heterogenous group of many types of fungi whose normal sexual stage (also called perfect stage) is absent or unknown. But in many of them heterokaryosis and pansexuality have been reported. Due to lack of information about the normal sexual stage these fungi [...]
In this article we will discuss about:- 1. Features of Myxomycota 2. Phylogeny of Myxomycota 3. Class Myxomycetes Introduction 4. Economic Importance 5. Occurrence 6. Sexual Reproduction 7. Life Cycle Pattern. Features of Myxomycota: The Myxomycota or slime molds, are fungus-like organisms. They are characterised by the absence of cell wall from their amoeboid,' animal-like vegetative or assimilatory phase. The [...]
In this article we will discuss about the somatic phase of myxomycota, explained with the help of suitable diagrams. The somatic phase consists of coenocytic mass of highly granular protoplasm containing hundreds or thousands of nuclei and vacuoles without cell walls, but delimited only by a thin plasma membrane—a plasmodium (pl. plasmodia) (Fig. 321A). The Plasmodium is a flat amoeboid [...]