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DEUTEROMYCETES
DEUTEROMYCETES
DEFENITION
CHARACTERISTICTS
STRUCTURE
REPRODUCTION
ECOLOGY AND ROLE
CLASSIFICATION
Deuteromycota comes from 2 words, deutero
which means second or imperfect, and mycota
which means fungi. So, it is a second-class
mushroom or an imperfect mushroom
Deuteromycetes also known as
Deuteromycota, Deuteromycotina, fungi
imperfecti, and mitosporic fungi are fungi that
are unable to produce sexual spores and are
therefore placed in their own separate phylum.
1. These fungi are also known as the asexual fungi or
fungi imperfecti or mitosporic fungi.
2. These fungi will not reproduce asexually so known
as the imperfect fungi.
3. The somatic body is characterized by the production
of septate mycelium, branched hyphae and asexual life
cycle.
4. The certain fungus produces appressoria and
haustoria.
5. Most of the fungus reproduces by means of conidia.
This fungus is only known for its asexual reproduction,
therefore it is often called imperfecti fungi or imperfect
fungi. Asexual reproduction of deuteromycota fungi is by
the formation of conidia.
This fungus reproduces asexually by producing conidia or
producing special hyphae called conidiophores. The
possibility of this fungus is a fungal transition that is
classified as Ascomycota to Basidiomycota but the
relationship is unknown.
The conidial forms produce conidia on
conidiophores arising directly from the somatic
hyphae which may be hyaline or bright-
coloured. The somatic hyphae may be loose
(Fig. 298A to D); separate; innate or not; or
closely aggregated to form sporogenous
structures, such as, acervulus, sporodochium
and synnema. Besides these, conidia may also be
produced in complex structures like, pycnidia.
According to Grove’s terminology (1935),
those Deuteromycetes which form their
spores in a cavity in the matrix upon
which they grow they are known as
Coelomycetes. Again in some forms,
conidia may be produced on more or less
loose cottony hyphae
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2. Celomycetes
Spora (conodia) made in conidiamata and usually as aservulus or
piknidium.
It has 2 ordo:
a. Ordo Sphaeropsidiales
Kodiniamata is ppiknidium and usually as parasict in plant leave
Example: Phoma, Phomopsis and Septoria.
Phoma
Phomopsis
Septoria
Phoma
Phomopsis
Septoria
Septoria
c. Ordo Melanconiales
Conidia is aservulus and caused anthrax
Example: Colletotrichum and Glomerella
Glomerella
Glomerella
3. Hypomycetes
Hypomycetes is not looks like conidiamata,conidia made in
sporofor. This class devided as 2 ordo:
a. Ordo Moniliales
Hypha and conidia has hyalin color.
Example:
Alternaria,Cephalosporium,Fusarium,Tricoderma,Verticilum,
Alternaria Cephalosporium,
Alternaria diease
b. Ordo Agonomycetes
This ordo can not produce conidia and reproduce by hypae
fragmentation.
Example: Rhizoctonia and Scerotium.