The zygomycota video is a brief introduction to the fungal phylum. The fungi in the phylum basidiomycota are easily recognizable under a light microscope by their clubshaped fruiting bodies called basidia singular, basidium. Members of the phylum basidiomycota have typical fungal morphology, with. Basidiomycota, large and diverse phylum of fungi kingdom fungi that includes jelly and shelf fungi. Basidiomycota phylum of fungi britannica encyclopedia britannica. Show full abstract have analyzed the distribution, domain architecture, and phylogenetic analysis of phytochrome proteins in 47 published genome sequences among the phylum basidiomycota. In this article we will discuss about phylum basidiomycota and ascomycota of fungi.
The phylum basidiomycota, which includes mushrooms and their closest fungus relatives, are very familiar to us. Pdf the basidiomycota constitutes a major phylum of the kingdom fungi and is second in species numbers to the ascomycota. Basidiomycota, large and diverse phylum of fungi kingdom fungi that. The mushrooms and toadstools with which mycology started, the rusts and smuts, which have been devastating crops since recorded history, the shelf. Make no mistake, ascomycetes and basidiomycetes evolved from a common. Two large phyla ascomycota and basidiomycota contain 95% of named species. Fungi that have no known sexual cycle were classified in the form phylum deuteromycota, which the present classification puts in the phyla ascomycota and. Mushrooms are free of cholesterol and contain small amounts of. Basidiomycetes are the group of fungi that reproduce and are. In this article we will discuss about the classification of phylum basidiomycota. Classification of phylum basidiomycota fungi biology. The class basidiomycetes includes those members that produce their basidia. The class urediniomycetes includes the rust fungi, that cause rust diseases of plants, and symbiotic fungi that parasitise insects parasitising plants and form intricate fungal structures called fungal gardens.
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