Economically significant species include C. purpurea (parasitic on grasses and cereals), C. fusiformis (on pearl millet, buffel grass), C. paspali (on dallis grass), C. africana (on sorghum), and C. lutea (on paspalum). (wikipedia.org)
C. purpurea most commonly affects outcrossing species such as rye (its most common host), as well as triticale, wheat, and barley. (wikipedia.org)
Ergot (/ˈɜːrɡət/ UR-gət) or ergot fungi refers to a group of fungi of the genus Claviceps. (wikipedia.org)
An ergot kernel, called a sclerotium, develops when a spore of fungal species of the genus Claviceps infects a floret of flowering grass or cereal. (wikipedia.org)
Ergot is the common name of a fungus in the genus Claviceps that is parasitic on certain grains and grasses. (wikidoc.org)
The form the fungus takes to winter-over is called a sclerotium , and this small structure is what is usually referred to as 'ergot', although referring to the members of the Claviceps genus as 'ergot' is also correct. (wikidoc.org)
An ergot kernel called a sclerotium develops when a floret of flowering grass or cereal is infected by a spore of Claviceps fungus. (wikidoc.org)
This honeydew contains millions of asexual spores (conidia), which insects disperse to other florets. (wikipedia.org)
Only deuteromycetes produce conidia (i.e. asexual spores) but sexual spores are produced by fungi in the phylum or division's zygomycetes, ascomycetes and basidiomycetes. (microbiologyclass.net)
Fungi in this division form asexual spores or conidia through the formation of sporangia (singular: sporangium) which contain numerous sporangiospores but sexual spores known as zygospores are formed via the mating of two haploid nuclei or fusion of morphologically similar gametangia that divide by the process of meiosis and mitosis. (microbiologyclass.net)
Spore1
The type of spore formed by the fungi (conidia or sexual spores). (microbiologyclass.net)
Hyaline1
We found isolates that are morphologically similar to species in the Cytosporaceae family, which is characterized by single or labyrinthine locules, filamentous conidiophores or clavate to elongate obovoid asci and allantoid, hyaline conidia. (bvsalud.org)
Fungus1
Insects, including flies and moths, carry conidia of Claviceps species, but it is unknown whether insects play a role in spreading the fungus from infected to healthy plants. (wikipedia.org)
Genus1
consequently, plants infected by Claviceps are mainly outcrossing species with open flowers, such as rye (Secale cereale) and ryegrasses (genus Lolium). (wikipedia.org)
Fungi3
Kingdom fungi contain diverse species of organisms (including yeasts, moulds and mushrooms amongst others) that have enormous medical, industrial and economic applications. (microbiologyclass.net)
and fungi in this division or phylum include Rhizopus species, Mucor species, Absidia and Pilobolus . (microbiologyclass.net)
and representative fungi in this group are Microsporum, Trichophyton, Piedraia, Blastomyces, Aspergillus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast)and Histoplasma species amongst others. (microbiologyclass.net)
Fungal1
Aspergillus species including A. niger ( Figure 3 ), A. flavus ( Figure 4 ) and A. fumigatus ( Figure 5 ) are important fungal organisms of the division Ascomycota, and some species of Aspergillus ( A. flavus in particular) are known to produce potent toxins known as aflatoxins which are cancer-causing in nature. (microbiologyclass.net)
Genome2
Additionally, we sequenced, assembled and characterized the genome of the representative isolate for this new species. (bvsalud.org)
Homologues, gene trees, and whole genome alignments across multiple species. (ensembl.org)
Shape and size1
Macroconidia differ in shape and size between the species, whereas microconidia are rather uniform, oval to globose (5×3 μm). (wikipedia.org)
Produce3
Claviceps species from tropic and subtropic regions produce macro- and microconidia in their honeydew. (wikipedia.org)
Although their fascinating feeding behaviour has been observed for the last 150 years, it is still unknown how protoplast feeders produce the well-defined and species-specific perforations in biochemically diverse cell walls. (megazyme.com)
Important1
sensu lato (s.l.) is composed of many important species of plant pathogens. (bvsalud.org)
Family1
The phylogenomic analysis confirms the species order and family level classification. (bvsalud.org)
Group1
Using orthologous group analysis, single-copy and species-specific genes were identified. (bvsalud.org)
Spores2
The sclerotia develop in place of the seeds once spores of a Claviceps fungus have infected grass flowers. (first-nature.com)
The identification of Alternaria species based on morphological criteria applied to colonies and spores remains a challenging task (Maraite et al. (croptrust.org)
Secondary4
Macroconidia are able to produce secondary conidia. (wikipedia.org)
A germ tube emerges from a macroconidium through the surface of a honeydew drop and a secondary conidium of an oval to pearlike shape is formed, to which the contents of the original macroconidium migrates. (wikipedia.org)
Secondary conidia form a white, frost-like surface on honeydew drops and spread via the wind. (wikipedia.org)
1998). Nevertheless, the presence on 7-day-old PCA of Simmons and Roberts' sporulation pattern 6 and a restricted number of conidia (two to three) per sporulation unit, associated with primary conidia and long (over 7 μm) apical secondary conidiophores, are useful criteria to differentiate A. triticina isolates from some of the other nonpathogenic Alternaria species (Mercado-Vergnes et al. (croptrust.org)
Differ2
Macroconidia differ in shape and size between the species, whereas microconidia are rather uniform, oval to globose (5×3 μm). (wikipedia.org)
Conidia differ in size between strains and are colored in various shades of brown ( Fig. 1 ) [2, 3]. (bustmold.com)
Produces1
Like other Alternaria species, A. triticina produces toxic metabolites. (croptrust.org)
Structure1
The main difference between coelomycetes and hyphomycetes is the structure of conidiomata i.e. any hyphal structure which bears conidia, e.g. (researchgate.net)
Includes1
Claviceps includes about 50 known species, mostly in the tropical regions. (wikipedia.org)
Regions1
Claviceps species from tropic and subtropic regions produce macro- and microconidia in their honeydew. (wikipedia.org)
Place1
Phylogenetic analysis based on ITS and EF1-α sequences place them within the clade containing species with Fusicoccum anamorphs. (researchgate.net)
Show1
Several grasses have been reported as primary hosts, but Prabhu and Prasada (1966) were unable to show its virulence on eight Poaceae species, including barley ( Hordeum vulgare ) and oats ( Avena sativa ). (croptrust.org)