Some fungi provide numerous drugs (such as penicillin and other antibiotics), foods like.
Some Fungi cause a number of human, plant, and animal diseases, while the others provide numerous drugs (such as penicillin and other antibiotics), foods (e.g., various Mushrooms, Truffles and Morels, and various Yeasts which are used in bread, champagne, and beer).
Other common Fungi are rusts, smuts, puffballs, molds, many Ascomycetes such as the agents of Dutch elm disease and chestnut blight.
However, many other fungi are biotrophs, and in this role a number of successful groups form symbiotic associations with plants (including algae), animals (especially arthropods), and prokaryotes. Examples are lichens, mycorrhizae, and leaf and stem endophytes.
Among the other well known associations are fungal parasites of animals. Humans, for example, may succumb to diseases caused by Pneumocystis (a type of pneumonia that affects individuals with supressed immune systems), Coccidioides (valley fever), Ajellomyces (blastomycosis and histoplasmosis), and Cryptococcus.
Notable Fungi
•Penicillium chrysogenum --- is known for its production of the antibiotic penicillin.
•The Michigan fungus clone (Armillaria bulbosa) --- grew in tree roots and soil.
•Rigidioporus ulmarius --- The largest basidiocarp known is that of a Rigidioporus ulmarius in a shady, hidden-away corner of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, England.
•Fungal Spores --- cause allergies; however, unlike seasonal pollen production, some fungi can produce spores all year long.
•Basidiomycetes --- have always attracted a lot of attention because some of them have large basidiocarps, but the realization that all fungi are important in ecosystem function has drawn more attention to microscopic forms as well.
•Another yeast-like ascomycete --- reported in the Dallas Morning News (28 August 1995, p. 8D) lives in the gut of cigar beetles and is essential to the beetle's health. Without the gut fungi to detoxify the plant material of toxins, the beetles would be poisoned.
•Chytridium (Chytridiomycota) -- Individual growing on a single pine pollen grain. Successive photos show zoospore release from the sporangium, and the arrow points to a flagellum.
•Pilobolus (Zygomycota_ --- Black sporangium atop swollen sporangiophore. Shortly, the swollen subsporangial vesicle will burst to send the sporangium flying. Herbivores eat the sporangium, and the enclosed mitospores germinate in the dung. The bright yellow carotenoid pigment enables the sporangium to orient to light (phototropism). If you look closely, you can see masses of nematodes on the vesicle; probably herbivore pathogens hoping to hitch a ride.
•Laetiporus sulphureus (Basidiomycota_ --- Massed fruiting bodies of the chicken-of-the-woods. The tiny tubular filaments (hyphae) that make the body of this fungus (mycelium) are growing in the old, dead wood of a large cherry tree. Laetiporus is not a parasite, but the decay may weaken the tree so much that wind or ice storms can topple it.
•Scarcoscypha coccinea (Ascomycota) --- Fruiting body of the scarlet cup fungus. Hundreds of millions of meiospores (ascospores) are discharged from this cup, usually in puffs that produce visible clouds of spores.
If you also check the sources I am providing below, you can extract from those site, many detailed info on Fungi Kingdom, and their classifications (A little work for you...)
Specially, check the last two sources, which is slide presentation with very useful info on classification of Fungi.
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Some fungi provide numerous drugs (such as penicillin and other antibiotics), foods like.
Some Fungi cause a number of human, plant, and animal diseases, while the others provide numerous drugs (such as penicillin and other antibiotics), foods (e.g., various Mushrooms, Truffles and Morels, and various Yeasts which are used in bread, champagne, and beer).
Other common Fungi are rusts, smuts, puffballs, molds, many Ascomycetes such as the agents of Dutch elm disease and chestnut blight.
However, many other fungi are biotrophs, and in this role a number of successful groups form symbiotic associations with plants (including algae), animals (especially arthropods), and prokaryotes. Examples are lichens, mycorrhizae, and leaf and stem endophytes.
Among the other well known associations are fungal parasites of animals. Humans, for example, may succumb to diseases caused by Pneumocystis (a type of pneumonia that affects individuals with supressed immune systems), Coccidioides (valley fever), Ajellomyces (blastomycosis and histoplasmosis), and Cryptococcus.
Notable Fungi
•Penicillium chrysogenum --- is known for its production of the antibiotic penicillin.
•The Michigan fungus clone (Armillaria bulbosa) --- grew in tree roots and soil.
•Rigidioporus ulmarius --- The largest basidiocarp known is that of a Rigidioporus ulmarius in a shady, hidden-away corner of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, England.
•Fungal Spores --- cause allergies; however, unlike seasonal pollen production, some fungi can produce spores all year long.
•Basidiomycetes --- have always attracted a lot of attention because some of them have large basidiocarps, but the realization that all fungi are important in ecosystem function has drawn more attention to microscopic forms as well.
•Another yeast-like ascomycete --- reported in the Dallas Morning News (28 August 1995, p. 8D) lives in the gut of cigar beetles and is essential to the beetle's health. Without the gut fungi to detoxify the plant material of toxins, the beetles would be poisoned.
•Chytridium (Chytridiomycota) -- Individual growing on a single pine pollen grain. Successive photos show zoospore release from the sporangium, and the arrow points to a flagellum.
•Pilobolus (Zygomycota_ --- Black sporangium atop swollen sporangiophore. Shortly, the swollen subsporangial vesicle will burst to send the sporangium flying. Herbivores eat the sporangium, and the enclosed mitospores germinate in the dung. The bright yellow carotenoid pigment enables the sporangium to orient to light (phototropism). If you look closely, you can see masses of nematodes on the vesicle; probably herbivore pathogens hoping to hitch a ride.
•Laetiporus sulphureus (Basidiomycota_ --- Massed fruiting bodies of the chicken-of-the-woods. The tiny tubular filaments (hyphae) that make the body of this fungus (mycelium) are growing in the old, dead wood of a large cherry tree. Laetiporus is not a parasite, but the decay may weaken the tree so much that wind or ice storms can topple it.
•Scarcoscypha coccinea (Ascomycota) --- Fruiting body of the scarlet cup fungus. Hundreds of millions of meiospores (ascospores) are discharged from this cup, usually in puffs that produce visible clouds of spores.
If you also check the sources I am providing below, you can extract from those site, many detailed info on Fungi Kingdom, and their classifications (A little work for you...)
Specially, check the last two sources, which is slide presentation with very useful info on classification of Fungi.
Good Luck!
Fungi Examples
Examples Of Fungi
magic mushrooms,mmmmm. Donuts.
Toe Jam,mmmmmmmm.
Belly Button Lint,mmmmmm Easter Bunnies.
Ear Wax,mmmmmmm.Candy.
Gaping Gash Syphilitic Pus,mmmmmm Gravy.
1.Rhizopus-zygomycetes
2Mucor-zygomycetes
3.Pencillium-Ascomycetes
4.Yeast-Ascomycetes
5.Mushroom-Basidiomycetes
6.Aspergillus--Ascomycetes
7.Candida-Ascomycetes
8.Rust (Puccinia)-Basidiomycetes
9.Pyricularia-Deuteromycetes
10.Gibberillia-Ascomycetes
Mushrooms - good for pizzas
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