Basidiomycete Basics
Structure formed by growing hyphae to allow maintaining a dikaryotic state
What are clamp connections?
Spores known as the “repeating stage”
What are Urediniosopres?
Basidiospores have this nuclear state; teliospores do not
What is monokaryotic haploid?
Ascospores and basidiospores are these type of spores
What are sexual spores?
The fertile layer of a basidiocarp
What is the hymenium?
Overwintering spores
What are Teliospores?
Rhizoctonia solani’s hyphae have this diagnostic feature; other basidiomycete pathogens do not
What is 90-degree branching?
In the black stem rust of wheat cycle, pycnia and aecia are produced on this host
What is barberry?
A specialized cell, often club-shaped, in which karyogamy and meiosis occur
What is a basidium?
A term for a rust fungus that requires only one host to complete its life cycle.
What is Autoecious?
P. graminis f. sp. tritici has this type of lifestyle; G. juniperi virginianae does not
What is polycyclic, macrocyclic?
Basidiospores and pycniospores have this nuclear state
What is monokaryotic haploid?
The remnants of the partial veil in a basidiocarp
What is the ring/skirt/annulus?
These structures are produced upon germination of basidiospores
What are pycnia?
Basidiospores are discharged from basidia in a way that ascospores are not
What is ballistospory?
Aeciospores and urediniospores have this nuclear state
What is dikaryotic haploid?
These three types of basidiocarp are produced by fungi in the Agaricomycotina
What are mushrooms, conks, and puffballs?
The area traveled each year from Mexico to Canada by cereal urediniospores
What is the Puccinia pathway?
Basidia produced by Pucciniomycotinia are this type of cell; most of those produced by Agaricomycotina are not
What are multicellular?
Cedar-apple rust and black stem rust of wheat have this in common
What are heteroecious rusts?