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After landing onto a suitable surface, unlike conidia, ascospores of Blumeria graminis showed a more variable developmental patterns. [3] 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 are globose, deliquescent, and scattered throughout the interior cavity i.e. as in Eurotium or arising in tufts from the basal region of ascocarps as in Erysiphe. In this case the ascocarp is round with the hymenium enclosed, so the spores do not automatically get released, and fungi with cleistothecia have had to develop new ...
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.
The asci (spore-bearing structures) are formed with croziers; they are broadly club-shaped with a stalk, containing eight spores that are often arranged in two rows. At maturity, the asci release the ascospores in a powdery mass atop the capitulum.
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 ...
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 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).
Banksiamyces species have asci that are cylindrical to club-shaped, and contain a plug at their extreme tips that will absorb color when stained with iodine. The ascospores may be arranged in one or two rows (uniseriate and biseriate, respectively), or rarely, irregular. The ascospores are ellipsoid, translucent, have a slight curve and may be ...