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CHAPTER 31
FUNGI
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Section A: Introduction to the Fungi
1. Absorptive nutrition enables fungi to live as decomposers and symbionts
2. Extensive surface area and rapid growth adapt fungi for absorptive
nutrition
3. Fungi disperse and reproduce by releasing spores that are produced either
sexually or asexually
4. Many fungi have a heterokaryotic stage
• Ecosystems would be in trouble without fungi to
decompose dead organisms, fallen leaves, feces, and
other organic materials.
• This decomposition recycles vital chemical elements back
to the environment in forms other organisms can
assimilate.
• Most plants depend on mutualistic fungi that help
their roots absorb minerals and water from the soil.
• Human have cultivated fungi for centuries for food,
to produce antibiotics and other drugs, to make bread
rise, and to ferment beer and wine.
Introduction
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• Fungi are eukaryotes and most are multicellular.
• While once grouped with plants, fungi generally
differ from other eukaryotes in nutritional mode,
structural organization, growth, and reproduction.
• Molecular studies indicate that animals, not plants,
are the closest relatives of fungi.
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• Fungi are heterotrophs that acquire their nutrients by
absorption.
• They absorb small organic molecules from the
surrounding medium.
• Exoenzymes, powerful hydrolytic enzymes secreted by
the fungus, break down food outside its body to simpler
compounds that the fungus can absorb and use.
1. Absorptive nutrition enables fungi to live
as decomposers and symbionts
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• The absorptive mode of nutrition is associated with
the ecological roles of fungi as decomposers
(saprobes), parasites, or mutualistic symbionts.
• Saprobic fungi absorb nutrients from nonliving
organisms.
• Parasitic fungi absorb nutrients from the cells of living
hosts.
• Some parasitic fungi, including some that infect
humans and plants, are pathogenic.
• Mutualistic fungi also absorb nutrients from a host
organism, but they reciprocate with functions that
benefit their partner in some way.
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• The vegetative bodies of most fungi are constructed
of tiny filaments
called hyphae
that form an
interwoven
mat called a
mycelium.
2. Extensive surface area and rapid growth
adapt fungi for absorptive nutrition
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Fig. 31.1
• Fungal mycelia can be huge, but they usually
escape notice because they are subterranean.
• One giant individual of Armillaria ostoyae in Oregon is
3.4 miles in diameter and covers 2,200 acres of forest,
• It is at least 2,400 years old, and weighs hundreds of
tons.
• Fungal hyphae have cell walls.
• These are built mainly of chitin, a strong but flexible
nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, identical to that
found in arthropods.
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• Most fungi are multicellular with hyphae divided
into cells by cross walls, or septa.
• These generally have pores large enough for ribosomes,
mitochondria, and even nuclei to flow from cell to cell.
• Fungi that lack septa, coenocytic fungi, consist of
a continuous cytoplasmic mass with hundreds or
thousands of nuclei.
• This results from
repeated nuclear
division without
cytoplasmic
division.
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Fig. 30.2a & b
• Parasitic fungi usually have some hyphae modified
as haustoria, nutrient-absorbing hyphal tips that
penetrate the tissues of their host.
• Some fungi even have hyphae adapted for preying
on animals.
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Fig. 30.2c & d
• The filamentous structure of the mycelium
provides an extensive surface area that suits the
absorptive nutrition of fungi.
• Ten cubic centimeters of rich organic soil may have
fungal hyphae with a surface area of over 300 cm2
.
• The fungal mycelium grows rapidly, adding as
much as a kilometer of hyphae each day.
• Proteins and other materials synthesized by the entire
mycelium are channeled by cytoplasmic streaming to
the tips of the extending hyphae.
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• The fungus concentrates its energy and resources
on adding hyphal length and absorptive surface
area.
• While fungal mycelia are nonmotile, by swiftly
extending the tips of its hyphae it can extend into new
territory.
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• Fungi reproduce by releasing spores that are
produced either sexually or asexually.
• The output of spores from one reproductive structure is
enormous, with the number reaching into the trillions.
• Dispersed widely by wind or water, spores germinate
to produce mycelia if they land in a moist place
where there is food.
3. Fungi disperse and reproduce by
releasing spores that are produced
sexually or asexually
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• The nuclei of fungal hyphae and spores of most
species are haploid, except for transient diploid
stages that form during sexual life cycles.
• However, some mycelia become genetically
heterogeneous through the fusion of two hyphae that
have genetically different nuclei.
• In this heterokaryotic mycelium, the nuclei may
remain in separate parts of the same mycelium or
mingle and even exchange chromosomes and genes.
• One haploid genome may be able to compensate for
harmful mutations in the other nucleus.
4. Many fungi have a heterokaryotic stage
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• In many fungi with sexual life cycles, karyogamy, fusion
of haploid nuclei contributed by two parents, occurs well
after plasmogamy, cytoplasmic fusion by the two parents.
• The delay may be hours, days, or even years.
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Fig. 31.3
• In some heterokaryotic mycelium, the haploid
nuclei pair off, two to a cell, one from each parent.
• This mycelium is said to be dikaryotic.
• The two nuclei in each cell divide in tandem.
• In most fungi, the zygotes of transient structures formed
by karyogamy are the only diploid stage in the life
cycle.
• These undergo meiosis to produce haploid cells that
develop as spores in specialized reproductive structures.
• These spores disperse to form new haploid mycelia.
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CHAPTER 31
FUNGI
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Section B1: Diversity of Fungi
1. Phylum Chytridiomycota: Chytrids may provide clues about fungal origins
2. Phylum Zygomycota: Zygote fungi form resistant structures during sexual
reproduction
• More than 100,000 species of fungi are known and
mycologists estimate that there are actually about 1.5
million species
worldwide.
• Molecular analyses
supports the division
of the fungi into four
phyla.
Introduction
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Fig. 31.4
• The chytrids are mainly aquatic.
• Some are saprobes, while others parasitize protists,
plants, and animals.
• The presence of flagellated zoospores had been used
as evidence for excluding chytrids from kingdom
Fungi which lack flagellated cells.
• However, recent molecular evidence supports the
hypothesis that chytrids are the most primitive fungi.
1. Phylum Chytridiomycota: Chytrids may
provide clues about fungal origins
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• Like other fungi, chytrids use an absorptive mode of
nutrition and have chitinous cell walls.
• While there are a few unicellular chytrids, most
form coenocytic hyphae.
• Some key enzymes and metabolic pathways found
in chytrids are shared with other fungal groups, but
not with the so-called funguslike protists.
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Fig. 31.5
• Most of the 600 zygomycete, or zygote fungi, are
terrestrial, living in soil or on decaying plant and
animal material.
• One zygomycete group form mycorrhizae,
mutualistic associations with the roots of plants.
• Zygomycete hyphae are coenocytic, with septa found
only in reproductive structures.
2. Phylum Zygomycota: Zygote fungi form
resistant structures during sexual
reproduction
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• The life cycle and biology of Rhizopus stolonifer,
black bread mold, is typical of zygomycetes.
• Horizontal hyphae spread out over food, penetrate it, and
digest nutrients.
• In the asexual phase, hundreds of haploid spores develop
in sporangia at the tips of upright hyphae.
• If environmental conditions deteriorate, this species of
Rhizopus reproduces sexually.
• Plasmogamy of opposite mating types produces a
zygosporangium.
• Inside this multinucleate structure, the heterokaryotic
nuclei fuse to form diploid nuclei that undergo meiosis.
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• The zygomycete Rhizopus can reproduce either asexually
or sexually.
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Fig. 31.7
• The zygosporangia are resistant to freezing and
drying.
• When conditions improve, the zygosporangia
release haploid spores that colonize new substrates.
• Some zygomycetes,
such as Pilobolus, can
actually aim their spores.
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Section B2: Diversity of Fungi
3. Phylum Ascomycota: Sac fungi produce sexual spores in saclike asci
4. Phylum Basidiomycota: Club fungi have long-lived dikaryotic mycelia
• Mycologists have described over 60,000 species of
ascomycetes, or sac fungi.
• They range in size
and complexity
from unicellular
yeasts to elaborate
cup fungi and
morels.
3. Phylum Ascomycota: Sac fungi produce
sexual spores in saclike asci
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Fig. 31.9
• Ascomycetes live in a variety of marine,
freshwater, and terrestrial habitats.
• Some are devastating plant pathogens.
• Many are important saprobes, particularly of plant
material.
• About half the ascomycete species live with algae in
mutualistic associations called lichens.
• Some ascomycetes form mycorrhizae with plants or live
between mesophyll cells in leaves where they may help
protect the plant tissue from insects by releasing toxins.
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• The defining feature of the Ascomycota is the
production of sexual spores in saclike asci.
• In many species, the spore-forming asci are collected
into macroscopic fruiting bodies, the ascocarp.
• Examples of ascocarps include the edible parts of
truffles and morels.
• Ascomycetes reproduce asexually by producing
enormous numbers of asexual spores, which are
usually dispersed by the wind.
• These naked spores, or conidia, develop in long chains
or clusters at the tips of specialized hyphae called
conidiophores.
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• Ascomycetes are characterized by an extensive
heterokaryotic stage during the formation of ascocarps.
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Fig. 31.10
(1) The sexual phase of the ascomycete lifestyle
begins when haploid mycelia of opposite mating
types become intertwined and form an antheridium
and ascogonium.
(2) Plasmogamy occurs via a cytoplasmic bridge and
haploid nuclei migrate from the antheridium to the
ascogonium, creating a heterokaryon.
(3) The ascogonium produces dikaryotic hyphae that
develop into an ascocarp.
(4) The tips of the ascocarp hyphae are partitioned
into asci.
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(5) Karyogamy occurs within these asci and the
diploid nuclei divide by meiosis, (6) yielding four
haploid nuclei.
(7) Each haploid nuclei divides once by mitosis to
produce eight nuclei, often in a row, and cell walls
develop around each nucleus to form ascospores.
(8) When mature, all the ascospores in an ascus are
dispersed at once, often leading to a chain reaction
of release, from other asci.
(9) Germinating ascospores give rise to new haploid
mycelia.
(10) Asexual reproduction occurs via conidia.
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• Approximately 25,000 fungi, including mushrooms,
shelf fungi, puffballs, and rusts, are classified in the
phylum Basidiomycota.
4. Phylum Basidiomycota: Club fungi have
long-lived dikaryotic mycelia
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Fig. 31.11
• The name of the phylum is derived from the
basidium, a transient diploid stage.
• The clublike shape of the basidium is responsible for
the common name club fungus.
• Basidiomycetes are important decomposers of
wood and other plant materials.
• Of all fungi, these are the best at decomposing the
complex polymer lignin, abundant in wood.
• Two groups of basidiomycetes, the rusts and
smuts, include particularly destructive plant
parasites.
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• The life cycle of a club fungus usually includes a long-
lived dikaryotic mycelium.
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(1) Two haploid mycelia of opposite mating type
undergo plasmogamy, (2) creating a dikaryotic
mycelium that ultimately crowds out the haploid
parents.
(3) Environmental cues, such as rain or temperature
change, induce the dikaryotic mycelium to form
compact masses that develop into basidiocarps.
• Cytoplasmic streaming from the mycelium swells the
hyphae, rapidly expanding them into an elaborate
fruiting body, the basidiocarp (mushrooms in many
species).
• The dikaryotic mycelia are long-lived, generally
producing a new crop of basidiocarp each year.
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(4) The surface of the basidiocarp’s gills are lined with
terminal dikaryotic cells called basidia.
(5) Karyogamy produces diploid nuclei which then
undergo meiosis, (6) each yielding four haploid
nuclei.
• Each basidium grows four appendages, and one haploid
nucleus enters each and develops into a basidiospore.
(7) When mature, the basidiospores are propelled
slightly by electrostatic forces into the spaces
between the gills and then dispersed by the wind.
(8) The basidiospores germinate in a suitable habitat
and grow into a short-lived haploid mycelia.
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• Asexual reproduction in basidiomycetes is much
less common than in ascomycetes.
• A billion sexually produced basidiospores may be
produced by a single, store-bought mushroom.
• The cap of the mushrooms support a huge surface area
of basidia on gills.
• These spores drop beneath the cap and are blown away.
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• By concentration growth in the hyphae of
mushrooms, a basidiomycete mycelium can erect
basidiocarps in just a few hours.
• A ring of mushrooms may appear overnight.
• At the center of the ring are areas where the mycelium
has already consumed all the available nutrients.
• As the mycelium radiates
out, it decomposes the
organic matter in the
soil and mushrooms
form just behind this
advancing edge.
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Fig. 31.13
• The four fungal
phyla can be
distinguished by
their reproductive
features.
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Section B3: Diversity of Fungi
5. Molds, yeasts, lichens, and mycorrhizae are specialized lifestyles that
evolved independently in diverse fungal phyla
• Four fungal forms: molds, yeasts, lichens, and
mycorrhizae, have evolved morphological and
ecological adaptations for specialized ways of life.
• These have occurred independently among the zygote
fungi, sac fungi, and club fungi.
5. Molds, yeasts, lichens, and mycorrhizae
are specialized lifestyles that evolved
independently in diverse fungal phyla
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• A mold is a rapidly growing, asexually
reproducing fungus.
• The mycelia of these fungi grow as saprobes or
parasites on a variety of substrates.
• Early in life, a mold, a term that applies properly only
to the asexual stage, produces asexual spores.
• Later, the same fungus may reproduce sexually,
producing zygosporangia, ascocarps, or basidiocarps.
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Fig. 31.14
• Some molds cannot be classified as zygomycetes,
ascomycetes, or basidiomycetes because they have
no known sexual stages.
• Collectively called deuteromycetes, or imperfect
fungi, these fungi reproduce asexually by
producing haploid spores.
• This is an informal grouping without phylogenetic
basis.
• Whenever a sexual stage for one of these fungi is
discovered, it is moved to the phylum that matches
its type of sexual structures.
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• Yeasts are unicellular fungi that inhabit liquid or
moist habitats, including plant sap and animal
tissues.
• Yeasts reproduce asexually by simple cell division or
budding off a parent cell.
• Some yeast reproduce sexually, forming asci
(Ascomycota) or basidia (Basidiomycota), but others
have no known sexual stage (imperfect fungi).
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Fig. 31.15
• Humans have used yeasts to raise bread or ferment
alcoholic beverages for thousands of years.
• Various strains of the yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae, an ascomycete, have been developed as
baker’s yeast and brewer’s yeast.
• Baker’s yeast releases small bubbles of CO2 that leaven
dough.
• Brewer’s yeast ferment sugars into alcohol.
• Researchers have used Saccharomyces to
investigate the molecular genetics of eukaryotes
because they are easy to culture and manipulate.
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• Some yeasts cause problems for humans.
• A pink yeast, Rhodotorula, grows on shower curtains
and other moist surfaces in our homes.
• Another yeast, Candida, is a normal inhabitant of moist
human epithelial surfaces, such as the vaginal lining.
• An environmental change, such as a change in pH or
compromise to the human immune system, can cause
Candida to become pathogenic by growing too
rapidly and releasing harmful substances.
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• While often mistaken for mosses or other simple
plants when viewed at a distance, lichens are
actually a symbiotic association of millions of
photosynthetic microorganisms held in a mesh of
fungal hyphae.
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Fig. 31.16
• The fungal component is commonly an
ascomycete, but several basidiomycete lichens are
known.
• The photosynthetic partners are usually unicellular
or filamentous green algae or cyanobacteria.
• The merger of fungus and algae is so complete that
they are actually given genus and species names,
as though they were single organisms.
• Over 25,000 species have been described.
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• The fungal hyphae provides most of the lichen’s
mass and gives it its overall shape and structure.
• The algal component usually occupies an inner
layer below the lichen surface.
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Fig. 31.17
• In most cases, each partner provides things the
other could not obtain on its own.
• For example, the alga provides the fungus with food by
“leaking” carbohydrate from their cells.
• The cyanobacteria provide organic nitrogen through
nitrogen fixation.
• The fungus provides a suitable physical environment
for growth, retaining water and minerals, allowing for
gas exchange, protecting the algae from intense sunlight
with pigments, and deterring consumers with toxic
compounds.
• The fungi also secrete acids, which aid in the uptake
of minerals.
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• The fungi of many lichens reproduce sexually by
forming ascocarps or basidiocarps.
• Lichen algae reproduce independently by asexual
cell division.
• Asexual reproduction of symbiotic units occurs
either by fragmentation of the parental lichen or by
the formation of structures, called soredia, small
clusters of hyphae with embedded algae.
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• The nature of lichen symbiosis is probably best
described as mutual exploitation instead of mutual
benefit.
• Lichens live in environments where neither fungi nor
algae could live alone.
• While the fungi do not not grow alone in the wild, some
lichen algae occur as free-living organisms.
• If cultured separately, the fungi do not produce lichen
compounds and the algae do not “leak” carbohydrate
from their cells.
• In some lichens, the fungus invades algal cells with
haustoria and kills some of them, but not as fast as the
algae replenish its numbers by reproduction.
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• Lichens are important pioneers on newly cleared
rock and soil surfaces, such as burned forests and
volcanic flows.
• The lichen acids penetrate the outer crystals of rocks
and help break down the rock.
• This allows soil-trapping lichens to establish and starts
the process of succession.
• Nitrogen-fixing lichens also add organic nitrogen to
some ecosystems.
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• Some lichens survive severe cold or desiccation.
• In the arctic tundra, herds of caribou and reindeer graze on
carpets of reindeer lichens under the snow in winter.
• In dry habitats, lichens absorb water quickly from fog or
rain, gaining more than ten times their mass in water.
• In dry air, lichens rapidly dehydrate and stop
photosynthesis.
• In arid climates, lichens grow very slowly, often less
than a millimeter per year.
• Lichens are particularly sensitive to air pollution and
their deaths can serve as an early warning of
deteriorating air quality.
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• Mycorrhizae are mutualistic associations of plant
roots and fungi.
• The anatomy of this symbiosis depends on the type of
fungus.
• The extensions of the fungal mycelium from the
mycorrhizae greatly increases the absorptive
surface of the plant roots.
• The fungus provides
minerals from the soil
for the plant, and the
plant provides organic
nutrients.
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Fig. 31.18
• Mycorrhizae are enormously important in natural
ecosystems and in agriculture.
• Almost all vascular plants have mycorrhizae and the
Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, and Zygomycota all have
members that form mycorrhizae.
• The fungi in these permanent associations periodically
form fruiting bodies for sexual reproduction.
• Plant growth without
mycorrhizae is often
stunted.
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Fig. 31.19
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Section C: Ecological Impacts of Fungi
1. Ecosystems depend on fungi as decomposers and symbionts
2. Some fungi are pathogens
3. Fungi are commercially important
• Fungi and bacteria are the principal decomposers that
keep ecosystems stocked with the inorganic nutrients
essential for plant growth.
• Without decomposers, carbon, nitrogen, and other
elements would become tied up in organic matter.
• In their role as decomposers, fungal hyphae invade
the tissues and cells of dead organic matter.
• Exoenzymes hydrolyze polymers.
• A succession of fungi, bacteria, and even some
invertebrates break down plant litter or corpses.
1. Ecosystems depend on fungi as
decomposers and symbionts
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• On the other hand, the aggressive decomposition
by fungi can be a problem.
• Between 10% and 50% of the world’s fruit harvest is
lost each year to fungal attack.
• Ethylene, a plant hormone that causes fruit to ripen,
also stimulates fungal spores on the fruit surface to
germinate.
• Fungi do not distinguish between wood debris and
human structures built of wood.
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• About 30% of the 100,000 known species of fungi
are parasites, mostly on or in plants.
• Invasive ascomycetes have had drastic effects on forest
trees, such as American elms and American chestnut, in
the northeastern United States.
• Other fungi, such as
rusts and ergots, infect
grain crops, causing
tremendous economic
losses each year.
2. Some fungi are pathogens
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Fig. 31.20
• Some fungi that attack food crops produce
compounds that are harmful to humans.
• For example, the mold Aspergillus can contaminate
improperly stored grains and peanuts with aflatoxins,
which are carcinogenic.
• Poisons produced by the ascomycete Claviceps
purpurea can cause gangrene, nervous spasms, burning
sensations, hallucinations, and temporary insanity when
infected rye is milled into flour and consumed.
• On the other hand, some toxin extracted from fungi
have medicinal uses when administered at weak doses.
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• Animals are much less susceptible to parasitic fungi
than are plants.
• Only about 50 fungal species are known to parasitize
humans and other animals, but their damage can be
disproportionate to their taxonomic diversity.
• The general term for a fungal infection is mycosis.
• Infections of ascomycetes produce the disease ringworm,
known as athlete's foot when they grow on the feet.
• Inhaled infections of other species can cause tuberculosis-
like symptoms.
• Candida albicans is a normal inhabitant of the human
body, but it can become an opportunistic pathogen.
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• In addition to the benefits that we receive from fungi
in their roles as decomposers and recyclers of
organic matter, we use fungi in a number of ways.
• Most people have eaten mushrooms, the fruiting bodies
(basidiocarps) of subterranean fungi.
• The fruiting bodies of certain mycorrhizal ascomycetes,
truffles, are prized by gourmets for their complex flavors.
• The distinctive flavors of certain cheeses come from the
fungi used to ripen them.
• The ascomycete mold Aspergillus is used to produce citric
acid for colas.
3. Fungi are commercially important
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• Yeast are even more important in food production.
• Yeasts are used in baking, brewing, and winemaking.
• Contributing to medicine, some fungi produce
antibiotics used to treat bacterial diseases.
• In fact, the first antibiotic discovered was penicillin,
made by the common mold Penicillium.
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Section D: Evolution of Fungi
1. Fungi colonized land with plants
2. Fungi and animals evolved from a common protistan ancestor
• The fossil record indicates that terrestrial
communities have always been dependent on fungi
as decomposers and symbionts.
• The oldest undisputed fossil fungi date back 460
million years, about the time plants began to colonize
land.
• Fossils of the first vascular plants from the late
Silurian period have petrified mycorrhizae.
• Plants probably moved onto land in the company of
fungi.
1. Fungi colonized land with plants
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• Molecular evidence supports the widely held view
that the four fungal divisions are monophyletic.
• The occurrence of flagella in chytrids, the oldest fungal
lineage, indicates that fungal ancestors were aquatic
flagellated organisms.
• Flagellated cells were lost as ancestral fungi became
increasingly adapted to life on land.
• Many of the differences among the Zygomycota,
Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota are different solutions
to the problem of reproducing and dispersing on land.
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• Animals probably evolved from aquatic flagellated
organisms too.
• Molecular evidence from comparisons of several
proteins and ribosomal RNA indicates that fungi are
more closely related to animals than to plants.
2. Fungi and animals evolved from a
common protistan ancestor
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Chapter 31(2)

  • 1. CHAPTER 31 FUNGI Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Section A: Introduction to the Fungi 1. Absorptive nutrition enables fungi to live as decomposers and symbionts 2. Extensive surface area and rapid growth adapt fungi for absorptive nutrition 3. Fungi disperse and reproduce by releasing spores that are produced either sexually or asexually 4. Many fungi have a heterokaryotic stage
  • 2. • Ecosystems would be in trouble without fungi to decompose dead organisms, fallen leaves, feces, and other organic materials. • This decomposition recycles vital chemical elements back to the environment in forms other organisms can assimilate. • Most plants depend on mutualistic fungi that help their roots absorb minerals and water from the soil. • Human have cultivated fungi for centuries for food, to produce antibiotics and other drugs, to make bread rise, and to ferment beer and wine. Introduction Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 3. • Fungi are eukaryotes and most are multicellular. • While once grouped with plants, fungi generally differ from other eukaryotes in nutritional mode, structural organization, growth, and reproduction. • Molecular studies indicate that animals, not plants, are the closest relatives of fungi. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 4. • Fungi are heterotrophs that acquire their nutrients by absorption. • They absorb small organic molecules from the surrounding medium. • Exoenzymes, powerful hydrolytic enzymes secreted by the fungus, break down food outside its body to simpler compounds that the fungus can absorb and use. 1. Absorptive nutrition enables fungi to live as decomposers and symbionts Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 5. • The absorptive mode of nutrition is associated with the ecological roles of fungi as decomposers (saprobes), parasites, or mutualistic symbionts. • Saprobic fungi absorb nutrients from nonliving organisms. • Parasitic fungi absorb nutrients from the cells of living hosts. • Some parasitic fungi, including some that infect humans and plants, are pathogenic. • Mutualistic fungi also absorb nutrients from a host organism, but they reciprocate with functions that benefit their partner in some way. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 6. • The vegetative bodies of most fungi are constructed of tiny filaments called hyphae that form an interwoven mat called a mycelium. 2. Extensive surface area and rapid growth adapt fungi for absorptive nutrition Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.1
  • 7. • Fungal mycelia can be huge, but they usually escape notice because they are subterranean. • One giant individual of Armillaria ostoyae in Oregon is 3.4 miles in diameter and covers 2,200 acres of forest, • It is at least 2,400 years old, and weighs hundreds of tons. • Fungal hyphae have cell walls. • These are built mainly of chitin, a strong but flexible nitrogen-containing polysaccharide, identical to that found in arthropods. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 8. • Most fungi are multicellular with hyphae divided into cells by cross walls, or septa. • These generally have pores large enough for ribosomes, mitochondria, and even nuclei to flow from cell to cell. • Fungi that lack septa, coenocytic fungi, consist of a continuous cytoplasmic mass with hundreds or thousands of nuclei. • This results from repeated nuclear division without cytoplasmic division. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 30.2a & b
  • 9. • Parasitic fungi usually have some hyphae modified as haustoria, nutrient-absorbing hyphal tips that penetrate the tissues of their host. • Some fungi even have hyphae adapted for preying on animals. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 30.2c & d
  • 10. • The filamentous structure of the mycelium provides an extensive surface area that suits the absorptive nutrition of fungi. • Ten cubic centimeters of rich organic soil may have fungal hyphae with a surface area of over 300 cm2 . • The fungal mycelium grows rapidly, adding as much as a kilometer of hyphae each day. • Proteins and other materials synthesized by the entire mycelium are channeled by cytoplasmic streaming to the tips of the extending hyphae. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 11. • The fungus concentrates its energy and resources on adding hyphal length and absorptive surface area. • While fungal mycelia are nonmotile, by swiftly extending the tips of its hyphae it can extend into new territory. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 12. • Fungi reproduce by releasing spores that are produced either sexually or asexually. • The output of spores from one reproductive structure is enormous, with the number reaching into the trillions. • Dispersed widely by wind or water, spores germinate to produce mycelia if they land in a moist place where there is food. 3. Fungi disperse and reproduce by releasing spores that are produced sexually or asexually Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 13. • The nuclei of fungal hyphae and spores of most species are haploid, except for transient diploid stages that form during sexual life cycles. • However, some mycelia become genetically heterogeneous through the fusion of two hyphae that have genetically different nuclei. • In this heterokaryotic mycelium, the nuclei may remain in separate parts of the same mycelium or mingle and even exchange chromosomes and genes. • One haploid genome may be able to compensate for harmful mutations in the other nucleus. 4. Many fungi have a heterokaryotic stage Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 14. • In many fungi with sexual life cycles, karyogamy, fusion of haploid nuclei contributed by two parents, occurs well after plasmogamy, cytoplasmic fusion by the two parents. • The delay may be hours, days, or even years. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.3
  • 15. • In some heterokaryotic mycelium, the haploid nuclei pair off, two to a cell, one from each parent. • This mycelium is said to be dikaryotic. • The two nuclei in each cell divide in tandem. • In most fungi, the zygotes of transient structures formed by karyogamy are the only diploid stage in the life cycle. • These undergo meiosis to produce haploid cells that develop as spores in specialized reproductive structures. • These spores disperse to form new haploid mycelia. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 16. CHAPTER 31 FUNGI Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Section B1: Diversity of Fungi 1. Phylum Chytridiomycota: Chytrids may provide clues about fungal origins 2. Phylum Zygomycota: Zygote fungi form resistant structures during sexual reproduction
  • 17. • More than 100,000 species of fungi are known and mycologists estimate that there are actually about 1.5 million species worldwide. • Molecular analyses supports the division of the fungi into four phyla. Introduction Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.4
  • 18. • The chytrids are mainly aquatic. • Some are saprobes, while others parasitize protists, plants, and animals. • The presence of flagellated zoospores had been used as evidence for excluding chytrids from kingdom Fungi which lack flagellated cells. • However, recent molecular evidence supports the hypothesis that chytrids are the most primitive fungi. 1. Phylum Chytridiomycota: Chytrids may provide clues about fungal origins Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 19. • Like other fungi, chytrids use an absorptive mode of nutrition and have chitinous cell walls. • While there are a few unicellular chytrids, most form coenocytic hyphae. • Some key enzymes and metabolic pathways found in chytrids are shared with other fungal groups, but not with the so-called funguslike protists. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.5
  • 20. • Most of the 600 zygomycete, or zygote fungi, are terrestrial, living in soil or on decaying plant and animal material. • One zygomycete group form mycorrhizae, mutualistic associations with the roots of plants. • Zygomycete hyphae are coenocytic, with septa found only in reproductive structures. 2. Phylum Zygomycota: Zygote fungi form resistant structures during sexual reproduction Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 21. • The life cycle and biology of Rhizopus stolonifer, black bread mold, is typical of zygomycetes. • Horizontal hyphae spread out over food, penetrate it, and digest nutrients. • In the asexual phase, hundreds of haploid spores develop in sporangia at the tips of upright hyphae. • If environmental conditions deteriorate, this species of Rhizopus reproduces sexually. • Plasmogamy of opposite mating types produces a zygosporangium. • Inside this multinucleate structure, the heterokaryotic nuclei fuse to form diploid nuclei that undergo meiosis. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 22. • The zygomycete Rhizopus can reproduce either asexually or sexually. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.7
  • 23. • The zygosporangia are resistant to freezing and drying. • When conditions improve, the zygosporangia release haploid spores that colonize new substrates. • Some zygomycetes, such as Pilobolus, can actually aim their spores. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.8
  • 24. CHAPTER 31 FUNGI Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Section B2: Diversity of Fungi 3. Phylum Ascomycota: Sac fungi produce sexual spores in saclike asci 4. Phylum Basidiomycota: Club fungi have long-lived dikaryotic mycelia
  • 25. • Mycologists have described over 60,000 species of ascomycetes, or sac fungi. • They range in size and complexity from unicellular yeasts to elaborate cup fungi and morels. 3. Phylum Ascomycota: Sac fungi produce sexual spores in saclike asci Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.9
  • 26. • Ascomycetes live in a variety of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats. • Some are devastating plant pathogens. • Many are important saprobes, particularly of plant material. • About half the ascomycete species live with algae in mutualistic associations called lichens. • Some ascomycetes form mycorrhizae with plants or live between mesophyll cells in leaves where they may help protect the plant tissue from insects by releasing toxins. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 27. • The defining feature of the Ascomycota is the production of sexual spores in saclike asci. • In many species, the spore-forming asci are collected into macroscopic fruiting bodies, the ascocarp. • Examples of ascocarps include the edible parts of truffles and morels. • Ascomycetes reproduce asexually by producing enormous numbers of asexual spores, which are usually dispersed by the wind. • These naked spores, or conidia, develop in long chains or clusters at the tips of specialized hyphae called conidiophores. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 28. • Ascomycetes are characterized by an extensive heterokaryotic stage during the formation of ascocarps. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.10
  • 29. (1) The sexual phase of the ascomycete lifestyle begins when haploid mycelia of opposite mating types become intertwined and form an antheridium and ascogonium. (2) Plasmogamy occurs via a cytoplasmic bridge and haploid nuclei migrate from the antheridium to the ascogonium, creating a heterokaryon. (3) The ascogonium produces dikaryotic hyphae that develop into an ascocarp. (4) The tips of the ascocarp hyphae are partitioned into asci. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 30. (5) Karyogamy occurs within these asci and the diploid nuclei divide by meiosis, (6) yielding four haploid nuclei. (7) Each haploid nuclei divides once by mitosis to produce eight nuclei, often in a row, and cell walls develop around each nucleus to form ascospores. (8) When mature, all the ascospores in an ascus are dispersed at once, often leading to a chain reaction of release, from other asci. (9) Germinating ascospores give rise to new haploid mycelia. (10) Asexual reproduction occurs via conidia. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 31. • Approximately 25,000 fungi, including mushrooms, shelf fungi, puffballs, and rusts, are classified in the phylum Basidiomycota. 4. Phylum Basidiomycota: Club fungi have long-lived dikaryotic mycelia Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.11
  • 32. • The name of the phylum is derived from the basidium, a transient diploid stage. • The clublike shape of the basidium is responsible for the common name club fungus. • Basidiomycetes are important decomposers of wood and other plant materials. • Of all fungi, these are the best at decomposing the complex polymer lignin, abundant in wood. • Two groups of basidiomycetes, the rusts and smuts, include particularly destructive plant parasites. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 33. • The life cycle of a club fungus usually includes a long- lived dikaryotic mycelium. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.12
  • 34. (1) Two haploid mycelia of opposite mating type undergo plasmogamy, (2) creating a dikaryotic mycelium that ultimately crowds out the haploid parents. (3) Environmental cues, such as rain or temperature change, induce the dikaryotic mycelium to form compact masses that develop into basidiocarps. • Cytoplasmic streaming from the mycelium swells the hyphae, rapidly expanding them into an elaborate fruiting body, the basidiocarp (mushrooms in many species). • The dikaryotic mycelia are long-lived, generally producing a new crop of basidiocarp each year. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 35. (4) The surface of the basidiocarp’s gills are lined with terminal dikaryotic cells called basidia. (5) Karyogamy produces diploid nuclei which then undergo meiosis, (6) each yielding four haploid nuclei. • Each basidium grows four appendages, and one haploid nucleus enters each and develops into a basidiospore. (7) When mature, the basidiospores are propelled slightly by electrostatic forces into the spaces between the gills and then dispersed by the wind. (8) The basidiospores germinate in a suitable habitat and grow into a short-lived haploid mycelia. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 36. • Asexual reproduction in basidiomycetes is much less common than in ascomycetes. • A billion sexually produced basidiospores may be produced by a single, store-bought mushroom. • The cap of the mushrooms support a huge surface area of basidia on gills. • These spores drop beneath the cap and are blown away. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 37. • By concentration growth in the hyphae of mushrooms, a basidiomycete mycelium can erect basidiocarps in just a few hours. • A ring of mushrooms may appear overnight. • At the center of the ring are areas where the mycelium has already consumed all the available nutrients. • As the mycelium radiates out, it decomposes the organic matter in the soil and mushrooms form just behind this advancing edge. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.13
  • 38. • The four fungal phyla can be distinguished by their reproductive features. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 39. CHAPTER 31 FUNGI Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Section B3: Diversity of Fungi 5. Molds, yeasts, lichens, and mycorrhizae are specialized lifestyles that evolved independently in diverse fungal phyla
  • 40. • Four fungal forms: molds, yeasts, lichens, and mycorrhizae, have evolved morphological and ecological adaptations for specialized ways of life. • These have occurred independently among the zygote fungi, sac fungi, and club fungi. 5. Molds, yeasts, lichens, and mycorrhizae are specialized lifestyles that evolved independently in diverse fungal phyla Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 41. • A mold is a rapidly growing, asexually reproducing fungus. • The mycelia of these fungi grow as saprobes or parasites on a variety of substrates. • Early in life, a mold, a term that applies properly only to the asexual stage, produces asexual spores. • Later, the same fungus may reproduce sexually, producing zygosporangia, ascocarps, or basidiocarps. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.14
  • 42. • Some molds cannot be classified as zygomycetes, ascomycetes, or basidiomycetes because they have no known sexual stages. • Collectively called deuteromycetes, or imperfect fungi, these fungi reproduce asexually by producing haploid spores. • This is an informal grouping without phylogenetic basis. • Whenever a sexual stage for one of these fungi is discovered, it is moved to the phylum that matches its type of sexual structures. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 43. • Yeasts are unicellular fungi that inhabit liquid or moist habitats, including plant sap and animal tissues. • Yeasts reproduce asexually by simple cell division or budding off a parent cell. • Some yeast reproduce sexually, forming asci (Ascomycota) or basidia (Basidiomycota), but others have no known sexual stage (imperfect fungi). Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.15
  • 44. • Humans have used yeasts to raise bread or ferment alcoholic beverages for thousands of years. • Various strains of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an ascomycete, have been developed as baker’s yeast and brewer’s yeast. • Baker’s yeast releases small bubbles of CO2 that leaven dough. • Brewer’s yeast ferment sugars into alcohol. • Researchers have used Saccharomyces to investigate the molecular genetics of eukaryotes because they are easy to culture and manipulate. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 45. • Some yeasts cause problems for humans. • A pink yeast, Rhodotorula, grows on shower curtains and other moist surfaces in our homes. • Another yeast, Candida, is a normal inhabitant of moist human epithelial surfaces, such as the vaginal lining. • An environmental change, such as a change in pH or compromise to the human immune system, can cause Candida to become pathogenic by growing too rapidly and releasing harmful substances. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 46. • While often mistaken for mosses or other simple plants when viewed at a distance, lichens are actually a symbiotic association of millions of photosynthetic microorganisms held in a mesh of fungal hyphae. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.16
  • 47. • The fungal component is commonly an ascomycete, but several basidiomycete lichens are known. • The photosynthetic partners are usually unicellular or filamentous green algae or cyanobacteria. • The merger of fungus and algae is so complete that they are actually given genus and species names, as though they were single organisms. • Over 25,000 species have been described. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 48. • The fungal hyphae provides most of the lichen’s mass and gives it its overall shape and structure. • The algal component usually occupies an inner layer below the lichen surface. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.17
  • 49. • In most cases, each partner provides things the other could not obtain on its own. • For example, the alga provides the fungus with food by “leaking” carbohydrate from their cells. • The cyanobacteria provide organic nitrogen through nitrogen fixation. • The fungus provides a suitable physical environment for growth, retaining water and minerals, allowing for gas exchange, protecting the algae from intense sunlight with pigments, and deterring consumers with toxic compounds. • The fungi also secrete acids, which aid in the uptake of minerals. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 50. • The fungi of many lichens reproduce sexually by forming ascocarps or basidiocarps. • Lichen algae reproduce independently by asexual cell division. • Asexual reproduction of symbiotic units occurs either by fragmentation of the parental lichen or by the formation of structures, called soredia, small clusters of hyphae with embedded algae. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 51. • The nature of lichen symbiosis is probably best described as mutual exploitation instead of mutual benefit. • Lichens live in environments where neither fungi nor algae could live alone. • While the fungi do not not grow alone in the wild, some lichen algae occur as free-living organisms. • If cultured separately, the fungi do not produce lichen compounds and the algae do not “leak” carbohydrate from their cells. • In some lichens, the fungus invades algal cells with haustoria and kills some of them, but not as fast as the algae replenish its numbers by reproduction. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 52. • Lichens are important pioneers on newly cleared rock and soil surfaces, such as burned forests and volcanic flows. • The lichen acids penetrate the outer crystals of rocks and help break down the rock. • This allows soil-trapping lichens to establish and starts the process of succession. • Nitrogen-fixing lichens also add organic nitrogen to some ecosystems. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 53. • Some lichens survive severe cold or desiccation. • In the arctic tundra, herds of caribou and reindeer graze on carpets of reindeer lichens under the snow in winter. • In dry habitats, lichens absorb water quickly from fog or rain, gaining more than ten times their mass in water. • In dry air, lichens rapidly dehydrate and stop photosynthesis. • In arid climates, lichens grow very slowly, often less than a millimeter per year. • Lichens are particularly sensitive to air pollution and their deaths can serve as an early warning of deteriorating air quality. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 54. • Mycorrhizae are mutualistic associations of plant roots and fungi. • The anatomy of this symbiosis depends on the type of fungus. • The extensions of the fungal mycelium from the mycorrhizae greatly increases the absorptive surface of the plant roots. • The fungus provides minerals from the soil for the plant, and the plant provides organic nutrients. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.18
  • 55. • Mycorrhizae are enormously important in natural ecosystems and in agriculture. • Almost all vascular plants have mycorrhizae and the Basidiomycota, Ascomycota, and Zygomycota all have members that form mycorrhizae. • The fungi in these permanent associations periodically form fruiting bodies for sexual reproduction. • Plant growth without mycorrhizae is often stunted. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.19
  • 56. CHAPTER 31 FUNGI Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Section C: Ecological Impacts of Fungi 1. Ecosystems depend on fungi as decomposers and symbionts 2. Some fungi are pathogens 3. Fungi are commercially important
  • 57. • Fungi and bacteria are the principal decomposers that keep ecosystems stocked with the inorganic nutrients essential for plant growth. • Without decomposers, carbon, nitrogen, and other elements would become tied up in organic matter. • In their role as decomposers, fungal hyphae invade the tissues and cells of dead organic matter. • Exoenzymes hydrolyze polymers. • A succession of fungi, bacteria, and even some invertebrates break down plant litter or corpses. 1. Ecosystems depend on fungi as decomposers and symbionts Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 58. • On the other hand, the aggressive decomposition by fungi can be a problem. • Between 10% and 50% of the world’s fruit harvest is lost each year to fungal attack. • Ethylene, a plant hormone that causes fruit to ripen, also stimulates fungal spores on the fruit surface to germinate. • Fungi do not distinguish between wood debris and human structures built of wood. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 59. • About 30% of the 100,000 known species of fungi are parasites, mostly on or in plants. • Invasive ascomycetes have had drastic effects on forest trees, such as American elms and American chestnut, in the northeastern United States. • Other fungi, such as rusts and ergots, infect grain crops, causing tremendous economic losses each year. 2. Some fungi are pathogens Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.20
  • 60. • Some fungi that attack food crops produce compounds that are harmful to humans. • For example, the mold Aspergillus can contaminate improperly stored grains and peanuts with aflatoxins, which are carcinogenic. • Poisons produced by the ascomycete Claviceps purpurea can cause gangrene, nervous spasms, burning sensations, hallucinations, and temporary insanity when infected rye is milled into flour and consumed. • On the other hand, some toxin extracted from fungi have medicinal uses when administered at weak doses. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 61. • Animals are much less susceptible to parasitic fungi than are plants. • Only about 50 fungal species are known to parasitize humans and other animals, but their damage can be disproportionate to their taxonomic diversity. • The general term for a fungal infection is mycosis. • Infections of ascomycetes produce the disease ringworm, known as athlete's foot when they grow on the feet. • Inhaled infections of other species can cause tuberculosis- like symptoms. • Candida albicans is a normal inhabitant of the human body, but it can become an opportunistic pathogen. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 62. • In addition to the benefits that we receive from fungi in their roles as decomposers and recyclers of organic matter, we use fungi in a number of ways. • Most people have eaten mushrooms, the fruiting bodies (basidiocarps) of subterranean fungi. • The fruiting bodies of certain mycorrhizal ascomycetes, truffles, are prized by gourmets for their complex flavors. • The distinctive flavors of certain cheeses come from the fungi used to ripen them. • The ascomycete mold Aspergillus is used to produce citric acid for colas. 3. Fungi are commercially important Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 63. • Yeast are even more important in food production. • Yeasts are used in baking, brewing, and winemaking. • Contributing to medicine, some fungi produce antibiotics used to treat bacterial diseases. • In fact, the first antibiotic discovered was penicillin, made by the common mold Penicillium. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Fig. 31.21
  • 64. CHAPTER 31 FUNGI Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings Section D: Evolution of Fungi 1. Fungi colonized land with plants 2. Fungi and animals evolved from a common protistan ancestor
  • 65. • The fossil record indicates that terrestrial communities have always been dependent on fungi as decomposers and symbionts. • The oldest undisputed fossil fungi date back 460 million years, about the time plants began to colonize land. • Fossils of the first vascular plants from the late Silurian period have petrified mycorrhizae. • Plants probably moved onto land in the company of fungi. 1. Fungi colonized land with plants Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 66. • Molecular evidence supports the widely held view that the four fungal divisions are monophyletic. • The occurrence of flagella in chytrids, the oldest fungal lineage, indicates that fungal ancestors were aquatic flagellated organisms. • Flagellated cells were lost as ancestral fungi became increasingly adapted to life on land. • Many of the differences among the Zygomycota, Ascomycota, and Basidiomycota are different solutions to the problem of reproducing and dispersing on land. Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings
  • 67. • Animals probably evolved from aquatic flagellated organisms too. • Molecular evidence from comparisons of several proteins and ribosomal RNA indicates that fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants. 2. Fungi and animals evolved from a common protistan ancestor Copyright © 2002 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings