Spores or pollen from a single species even an individual plant sporangium may vary in morphology and size to point that equivalent forms found dispersed the sediment have been described as different genera. In addition, not all these organs were mature at moment of burial, therefore they do always contain completely developed microspores. To understand variations better, we studied intraspecif...

Morphological characterization of Phytophthora isolates commonly was done on the basis colony and hyphal swelling characteristics, form, shape chlamydospore, sporangia as well oogonia antheridia. Molecular conducted using specific primer pairs Pal1 s Pal2a for palmivora universal ITS4 ITS5 followed by sequencing isolates. The virulence tested a cocoa pod Sulawesi2 clone. A total 21 were collect...

In April 2002 and 2003, soft rot on fruit of eggplant (Solanum melongena) caused by Choanephora cucurbitarum was observed in the experimental fields at Gyeongnam Agricultural Research and Extension Services in Korea. The disease began with water-soaking and dark-green lesions, and then the infected tissues were rapidly rotten. Sporangium was subglobose in shape and sized 40~130 µm. Monosporous ...

By applying microspectrophotometry to the sporangiophore of Phycomyces blakesleeanus wild-type and the albino car-10(-) type II, absorption spectra were obtained for 1- to 5-day cultures. Spectra in the growing-zone of the wild-type during Stage IVb, taken from 0.1 to 3 mm below the base of the sporangium, show two distinctly different spectra: one is more characteristic of a carotene, the othe...

A gentic instability in Phycomyces is described that appears to be associated with a single nuclear gene, dar. The wild type is able to take up riboflavin and its toxic analogue, deaza-riboflavin, from nanomolar concentrations in the medium. The mutants are unable to take up riboflavin and are resistant to deaza-riboflavin. Forward and reverse mutation rates are estimated to be 4 x 10(-5) and 2...

BACKGROUND The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and its southern and southeastern mountain ranges, Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains (HHM), are one of the most extensive habitats for alpine plants in the world. How ferns occurring in QTP and HHM changed their distribution ranges in response to Quaternary climatic oscillations remains almost unknown. METHODOLOGY AND RESULTS We employed sequences of two...

This study was carried out to determine the antifungal effects of supernatant produced by bacterium Xenorhabdus szentirmaii, which is associated with soil-inhabiting entomopathogenic nematodes, on important plant pathogenic fungi, Fusarium verticilliodes, oxysporum f.sp lycopersici, radicis Botrytis cinerea, Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Phytophthora nicotianae. The 1, 3, 5 7% concentrations X. ...

Samples from synchronized cultures of Rlastorlacliella e m e ~ s o n i i were examined by electron microscopy from t,he late log phase to the completioli of zoospore differentiation, Log-phase plants contain t,he usual cytoplasmic organelles but also have an unusual system of large tubules ca. 45 mp diam that ramify in organized bundles throughout the protoplast,. After induction, zoosporangium...