Toxics and Tasties
This blue-green fungus is cultivated for a cheese commonly used in salad dressing
Who is Penicillium roquefortii?
Conidiomata are a type of fruiting bodies that Ascomata are not
What are asexual?
Conidiomata and Ascomata are this type of structures
What are fruiting bodies?
Verticillium wilt
What are microsclerotia?
Way in which genera of powdery mildews can be distinguished morphologically
What are chasmothecia appendages/ number of asci per chasmothecium?
Producer of aflatoxin, this fungus is a common storage pathogen of peanuts
Who is Aspergillus flavus?
Pycnidia have this type of shape that acervuli have not
What is flask-shaped?
Acervuli and Pycnidia contain these types of spore-producing hyphae
What are conidiophores?
Fusarium head blight
What are perithecia/sporodochia?
Host-specific isolates of Verticillium dahliae can implement this strategy to allow for recombination of characters without sexual reproduction
What is fungal anastomosis?
Premium wines can be made if this fungus infects grapes under the right conditions
Who is Botrytis cinerea?
Powdery mildew has a type of parasitic behavior that Botrytis has not
What is a biotroph?
Apothecia and Pseudothecia release these types of spores
What are ascospores?
Rose powdery mildew
What are chasmothecia?
The insect vectors of Dutch Elm Disease
What are elm bark beetles?
The toxin produced by this fungus is known as deoxynivalenol or vomitoxin
Who is Fusarium graminearum?
Sporodochia are this size clusters of conidiophores that synnemata are not
What are short?
Secondary infections in rose powdery mildew and Botrytis grey mold are caused by these types of spores
What are conidia?
Apple Scab
What are pseudothecia?
The sources of primary inoculum in the apple scab disease cycle
What are fallen leaves on ground?
This fungus produces a neurotoxic alkaloid that causes convulsive symptoms
Who is Claviceps purpurea?
Pseudothecia contain this type of asci that perithecia do not
What are bitunicate?
Ophiostoma ulmi and Verticillium dahliae induce this type of symptom
What is wilting? (vascular discoloration is also ok)
Dutch Elm Disease
What are perithecia/synnemata?
This 8-letter fungal genus causes head blight in wheat
Who is Fusarium?