Genu

s
Vaucheri
a

Tahir Shahzad
(02)
B.S 5th (Reg
Vaucheria
Habitat
1. Aquatic as well as terrestrial
2. Grows in the form of dense on
tufts garde soil mois walls
dam
p n ponds,, ditches
stagnant t ,
etc.
Vegetative structure
1. Yellow green filamentous
2. alga appear
s
Branching is monopodial
3. Vacuole continuou throughou
but
is s t
4. thallus
dichotomous
Thall are multinucleate lac cross
iwalls and are
d, called k -
5. coenocytic
Numerou yellow-
s contai green
Ch a,e
n
carotene & xanthophylls
chromatophores l ,
6. Reserve food material is
Asexual reproduction

Zoospores (synzoospres):
Multiflagellate & multinucleate, produced
in club shaped sporangium.
During development of
zoosporangium,
portion of sidetip branch swellin
g
starts
numbe
and becomes club shaped r
of nucle
Dense and chromatophore
cytoplasm along with flow
i
into
large s
the swellin followe by
appreance g of d
septum.

Development & liberation

of
synzoospores
Centra vacuol reduces
l e
zoosporangiu
m ,
Nuclei exchange
dark green in their
turns into
position
color
from chromatophores
The
protoplascel
start contracting
s from m l
wall and changes
into
are
zoospore.synzoospre
called
Zoosporesorare liberated
compound
zoosopre.
and
Aplanospores (Non-motile spores
produced
Produced
under inside aplanosporangium.
unfavorable conditions)
Thes are like zoospor excep flagell are absen
e e t a t

Development, liberation & germination of

synzoospores
Akinete / cyst /
s s
hypnospores (develo
under p
Are short, thick
adverse conditions)
w alled,
Akinete
gelatinousare produce in
s
dichotomou
s
r ows this stag d is callein
, e branche d
Gongrosir stage because
ita gree alg
a sn a
resembles
With return of favorable
Gongrosira.
conditions, akinetes
directly
forms new A: Gongrosira stage
plants A-D:
Development &
Sexual
reproduction
(oogamous)
Male sex organs:
Antheridia
(slender, hook-shaped)
Female sex organs:
Oogonia
(spherical)
Position of sex
organs
1. Sessile type: Sex

organs
are formed on main
filament. The male &
female
2. sex organs are produced
on
branches close to each
other and are sessile.
Geminata type: Sex Sex organs in Vaucheria sessile
organs (A)
 Stages in
development
of se organ
x s

A: Mature sex
organs
B: Liberation of
antherozoids and
fertilization
Fertilization
After the non-motile egg is fertilized by a biflagellate
sperm, themay enter a resting
zygote for severa week befor
phase
germinatin into a new l s e
g plant.

Germination of
 Life
cycle
of
Vaucheria
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