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Basidiomycetes (Club fungi) - Practice Questions & MCQ
Edited By admin | Updated on Sep 18, 2023 18:34 AM | #NEET
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Basidiomycetes (Club fungi)
- Basidiomycetes grow on moist soil, logs, trunks of trees or as parasites.
- Mycelium is septate and branched. Both the monokaryotic and dikaryotic mycelia are seen. Dikaryotic mycelium show dolipore septum and clamp connections.
- Asexual reproduction is absent in basidiomycetes.
- Sexual organs are absent in basidiomycetes.
- Sexual reproduction is by somatogamy between cells of monokaryotic mycelium of opposite strains. It results in the formation of dikaryotic mycelium which gives rise to basidium.
- In the basidium karyogamy takes place. The diploid nucleus undergoes meiosis and later basidiospores are formed exogenously on the basidium.
- The fruiting body of basidiomycetes is called basidiocarp.
- Basidiomycetes include mushrooms, toadstools, bracket fungi and puffballs. Eg. Agaricus, Ustilago, Puccinia.
- Ustilago tritici causes loose smut of wheat and U. maydis causes smut of corn.
- Puccinia graminis causes black rust of wheat and Puccinia glumarum causes yellow rust of wheat.
- Agaricus is edible while Amanita is poisonous.
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