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The fungi Saccharomyces produces ascospores when grown on V-8 medium, acetate ascospore agar, or Gorodkowa medium. These ascospores are globose and located in asci. Each ascus contains one to four ascospores. The asci do not rupture at maturity. Ascospores are stained with Kinyoun stain and ascospore stain.
The unitunicate asci are usually cylindrical in shape, borne on a stipe (stalk), released from a pore, developed from the inner wall of the perithecium and arise from a basal plectenchyma-centrum. Examples are members of Sphaeriales and Hypocreales .
As an ascomycete, Ceratocystis coerulescens produces ascospores encased as groups of eight in asci. The asci are protected by a perithecium, a flask-shaped ascocarp, in which the pathogen overwinters. Ascospores are the sexual spores and are far less common than the asexual spores known as conidia.
The defining feature of this fungal group is the "ascus" (from Ancient Greek ἀσκός (askós) 'sac, wineskin'), a microscopic sexual structure in which nonmotile spores, called ascospores, are formed. However, some species of Ascomycota are asexual and thus do not form asci or ascospores.
P. capsellae is an ascomycete, meaning it produces ascospores housed in asci as means of sexual reproduction. Sexual structures are found in the sexual stage of this fungus, which has been classified as Mycosphaerella capsellae. The ascocarp of M. capsellae is a cleistothecium, meaning asci are shielded from the environment prior to ascospore ...
Pisorisporium genera usually have an ascomata (the asci-bearing fruiting body) which is non-stromatic (not encased in the stroma), immersed, gradually erumpent (bursting through a surface) to superficial and solitary or in small groups or rows. It is also papillate (has a small, elongated protuberance on the surface) or with a short beak.
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The asci typically contain eight spores each. Individual ascospores of Megalospora austropacifica are clear and two-celled, with a slight curve reminiscent of the sulphurata -type spores. They measure 60–85 by 22–26 μm, with spore walls that are 2–3 μm thick and have a thin, smooth outer layer ( epispore ).