These algae-like fungi occur in aquatic or moist terrestrial habitats as single cells or mycelial mats composed of multinucleate, nonseptate hyphae. Their life cycle generally mirrors that of plants, with a transitory haploid stage. Both resting oospores and motile zoospores are diploid, the ...
Fungi are major ecological players in both terrestrial and aquatic environments by cycling organic matter and channelling nutrients across trophic levels. High-throughput sequencing (HTS) studies of fungal communities are redrawing the map of the fungal kingdom by hinting at its enormous — and largely...
Filamentous fungi are ubiquitous with diverse applications in bioremediation, biofertilizer, biofuels and various industrial applications. In this book chapter, various ways of valorization of terrestrial and aquatic pollutants are highlighted.Abdullahi Adamu FaggoFungal Biotechnology...
Chytridiomycota or chytrids are zoosporic fungi. Members of this group are typically saprotrophs, their spores possess whiplash flagellum and the cell walls are made of chitin. They are found in both aquatic and terrestrial environments. Some chytrids are parasites like Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis,...
terrestrial and aquatic environments enriched in cellulose (e.g., domestic waste landfill sites).[160] They lack mitochondria but contain hydrogenosomes of mitochondrial origin. As in the related chrytrids, neocallimastigomycetes form zoospores that are posteriorly uniflagellate or polyflagellate.[...
a meta-analysis of metabarcoding data from soil- and root-associated fungi reported that total fungal diversity is higher at higher latitudes19. Among further disparities, the diversity of leaf-associated aquatic fungi has been found to peak at mid-latitudes22whereas that of terrestrial leaf endophyt...
Fungi are mostly terrestrial, but few are aquatic also. Fungi mostly grow in warm and humid places like wood, the bark of trees, dung, etc. Depending on the mode of nutrition, fungi can be saprophytic or parasitic.a. Saprophytic fungi grow on dead and decaying organic matter (plants and ...
Now, these heterotrophic, metabolically complex organisms inhabit the various substrata of both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems from glacial ice in Antarctica to the deep-sea sediments of the Marina trench and barren rocks of deserts and searing compost heaps. Here, they play a central role in ...
In terms of ecological niche, EPF are found in both aquatic and terrestrial (forest and agricultural) habitats and usually found to be associated with insects, that is, they are entomogenous. These fungal species can be obligate or facultative pathogens to respectively healthy or compromised host ...
Nucleated, usually filamentous, sporebearing organisms devoid of chlorophyll; typically reproducing both sexually and asexually; living as parasites in plants, animals, or other fungi, or as saprobes on plant or animal remains, in aquatic, marine, terrestrial, or subaerial habitats. Yeasts, mildews...