A New Species of Muellerella and Its Development

Routien, John B.

doi:10.2307/2483092

“…Repeated nuclear divisions and septum formation in a three-dimensional manner form a pseudoparenchymatous mass of cells. Identical accounts of ascocarp initiation in similar Loculoascomycetes have been reported (Nichols, 1896;Arnold, 1928;Page, 1939;Gaurnann, 1952;Barr, 1956;Moreau and Moreau, 1956;Routien, 1956;Cain, 1961;Morisset, 1963;Kowalski, 1964;Corlett, 1967Corlett, , 1970. However, several variations in ascocarp initiation have also been reported: fusion of uninucleate hyphal cells (Cavara and Mollica, 1907;Beatus, 1938), division of uninucleate cell clusters (Fraser, 1935;Luttrell, 1964;Kowalski, 1965;Corlett, 1968), division of multinucleate cells (Dangeard, 1907;Wehmeyer, 1954Wehmeyer, , 1955b, intertwining hyphae forming pseudoparenchymatous knots (Wehmeyer, 1941(Wehmeyer, , 1955aParguey-Leduc, 1958;Maciejowska and Williams, 1963), and three-dimensional division of germinating ascospores (Elisei, 1939).…”

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Ultrastructure of Ascocarp Development in Sporormia australis

Blanchard

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1972

American Journal of Botany

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Thin sections taken from intact ascocarps were examined to trace the developmental sequence of ascocarp formation in Sporormia australis Speg. The ascocarp originated from a uninucleate vegetative hyphal cell which underwent repeated divisions and formed an ascostroma. In the center of the young ascostroma a cavity formed, apparently from cell disintegrations, and enlarged as the ascocarp enlarged. Within the cavity pseudoparaphyses developed from undifferentiated pseudoparenchymatous cells at the apex of the cavity and extended downward. Ascogenous hyphae arose from proliferating uninucleate cells at the base of the cavity. As the ascocarp matured, the pseudoparenchymatous cells differentiated into three layers, none of which were considered homologous to the perithecial wall lining the cavity of pyrenomycetes. The cells of the apex were not differentiated into layers and light microscopy revealed the presence of an ostiole through which bitunicate asci discharged their eight 4-celled ascospores.

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Ultrastructure of Ascocarp Development in Sporormia Australis

Blanchard

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1972

American J of Botany

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Thin sections taken from intact ascocarps were examined to trace the developmental sequence of ascocarp formation in Sporormia australis Speg. The ascocarp originated from a uninucleate vegetative hyphal cell which underwent repeated divisions and formed an ascostroma. In the center of the young ascostroma a cavity formed, apparently from cell disintegrations, and enlarged as the ascocarp enlarged. Within the cavity pseudoparaphyses developed from undifferentiated pseudoparenchymatous cells at the apex of the cavity and extended downward. Ascogenous hyphae arose from proliferating uninucleate cells at the base of the cavity. As the ascocarp matured, the pseudoparenchymatous cells differentiated into three layers, none of which were considered homologous to the perithecial wall lining the cavity of pyrenomycetes. The cells of the apex were not differentiated into layers and light microscopy revealed the presence of an ostiole through which bitunicate asci discharged their eight 4‐celled ascospores.

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