Biology 3218F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Basidiospore, Karyogamy, Zygote
20 Sep 2016
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People say mushroom fungi but they are only 1 subphylum of the basidiomycota. Ustilaginoimycotina are the smuts, and the pucciniomycotina are the rusts, and the. There are a few species that only reproduce asexually and some which are yeast. Smuts and rusts are predominantly plant pathogens (exceptions: e. g. dandruff fungus is in the. Smuts are classic plant pathogens, and most smuts are involved in attacking the flowering or fruiting parts of plants. Corn smut is a great example; other species of smuts are in the heads of wheats or other grasses. And there is onion smut, which is not in the flowers of onions, it"s in the bulbs of onions where the food reserves are. Rusts are predominantly plant pathogens and there are some rusts that are associated with floral parts (flowers) but most of them are on leaves and stems.
