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Basidiomycetes – Club Fungi

Saprophytes- feed on dead / decaying organic matterParasites- live on within a host who is its food sourceHas a basidium – produced in basidiocarps Basidiospores/ sporidia- born outside the basidium- usually uninucleate and 4 in number, rarely binucleate

Septate Mycellium- with binucleate cells forming clamp connectionsChitinous cell wallsAll basidiomycetes are composed of masses of hyphae.The perfect stage is when the basidium bears basidiospores.

CLAMP CONNECTION

SMUTS belong to the order

Ustilaginales able to complete their

life cycle with only a single host

spread to infest the whole plant from an initial infection spot

corn smut (Ustilago myadis)

RUSTS belong to the order

Uredinales complicated life

cycles which involve the infection of two different plant species

five spore stages

stem rust (Puccinia graminis) on wheat stem and leaves

MUSHROOMS spore-bearing fruit bodies of fungi basidiospores produced on the gills

OTHER EXAMPLES: Puffballs Stinkhorns Jelly Fungi

ADVANTAGESedible Basidiomycetes

Ex. pizza mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus)

shiitake mushrooms (Lentinula edodes)Basidiomycota extract

-Used to make Active Hexose Correlated Compound (AHCC)

-Have a toxic effect on cancer cells

-Prevents Trypanothione

-Does not harm our PMBCs or Peripheral Blood Mononuclear cells

-Fights other hard-to-fight diseasesEx. Leishmaniasis

-PSK (Basidiomycete-derived protein bound polysaccharide

- Medecine to stop Liver metatesis of cancer

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DISADVANTAGES

Dimorphic form can cause diseases or infections on-Plants-Animals-Other fungi

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Ex. Cryptococcus neoformans

Ustilago maydis

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