Sporeling development in the genus Exormotheca. 1. Exormotheca ceylonensis

1968 ◽  
Vol 46 (8) ◽  
pp. 1009-1012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ram Udar ◽  
S. C. Srivastava

The sporeling development in E. ceylonensis has been described. The germ tube emerges through the distal face of the spore. The plate formation is of two types: the Stephensoniella type and the Asterella type. The germ rhizoid formation is of the Stephensoniella type.

Author(s):  
Fatima Abdul Hussein Mejbel

 During the period from September 2016 to December 2017,135 urine samples were collected from urinary tract infection patients attending to AL-Zahraa Hospital in AL-Najaf Governorate. The present study was conducted to isolate and identify Candida spp. isolated from urinary tract infection patients by different methods including direct examination, laboratory culture, biochemical test and by modern techniques (Api Candida kit) and determine the virulence factors phenotypic to Candida spp which involved (biofilm formation,phospholipase and germ tube). The percentage of females to males was as following, female (84) 62.2 % (21) infected and male (51) 37.8% (1) infected with all age categories. The results in this study are explain that is some Candida spp. such as C. albicans, have high susceptible to eugenole follow by phenol and umbellulone. The efficiency of some chemical substances such as (eugenole,umbellulone, and phenol) was evaluated to inhibit the growth of Candida ssp as well as some virulence factors such as biofilm formation,germ tube and phospholipase,which were studied in this research. Statistically analysis results have been significance difference between the results of the substance concentrations and the concentrations of the different other substances.


1982 ◽  
Vol 28 (10) ◽  
pp. 703
Author(s):  
M.R. Duddridge
Keyword(s):  

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
JoAnn P. Fenn ◽  
Helene Segal ◽  
Lisa Blevins ◽  
Shawn Fawson ◽  
Patty Newcomb-Gayman ◽  
...  

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (10) ◽  
pp. 1825-1835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham A. Held

Zoospores of the obligately parasitic chytrid Rozella allomycis which settle upon hyphae of the water mold host, Allomyces arbuscula, encyst and germinate before their protoplasts penetrate into the host cytoplasm. This process has been examined by light and electron microscopy. Three stages which follow the attachment to the host and the retraction of the zoospore's flagellum are described: (1) the early cyst lacks a wall; it is discoid, and its shape is maintained by the coil of the retracted axoneme which forms its rim; (2) a cyst wall is formed while multivesicular bodies occur at the cell periphery and eventually disappear; a germ tube starts to grow at the point of attachment; and (3) the firm-walled cyst is spheroidal; it has a fully developed germ tube with a specialized class of vesicles; it also forms a distal, flattened vacuole whose swelling eventually injects the Rozella protoplast into the host; at this stage the retracted axoneme has disappeared and the cell's organelles have undergone extensive changes. Electron-dense, "gamma-like" granules enclosed in vacuoles may play a major role in the formation of both the cyst wall and the distal vacuole. These granules appear to give rise to small vesicles, and thus to multivesicular bodies; the distal vacuole appears to form by coalescense of gamma-like vacuoles.The general sequence of encystment and germination resembles that found in other Chytridiomycetes, both saprophytic and parasitic. However, the distal vacuole and the vesicles in the germ tube appear to be parasitic adaptations and are shared by obligate intracellular parasites from several unrelated groups of zoosporic fungi.


2009 ◽  
Vol 54 (12) ◽  
pp. 2051-2061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Zhang ◽  
WenJie Zhang ◽  
Frantisek Baluska ◽  
Diedrik Menzel ◽  
HaiYun Ren

1931 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Silver Dowding

Arceuthobium, the host of Wallrothiella Arceuthobii, has been found in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, and Ontario and Wallrothiella Arceuthobii has been found in Manitoba and Alberta.Arceuthobium fruits become infected in Canada in the spring, about a week after fertilization. The fungus and the infected fruits then increase in size, and they attain their maximum development by the summer of the following year.The ascospores are not violently discharged into the air. The spores ooze out into water when the perithecia are wet.The mature perithecium is made up of two compartments, the lower compartment containing the asci, and the upper compartment into which the ascospores are discharged and where they collect.It is suggested that insects are agents which disperse the ascospores.Ascospores sown in Arceuthobium decoction commence to germinate, but growth ceases after the germ tube has reached the length of about one millimetre.Attempts to inoculate the stigmas of healthy Arceuthobium with "sprout-mycelium" have so far been unsuccessful.


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