The fine structure of conidiogenesis in Alysidium resinae (=Torula ramosa)

1977 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 676-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. Ellis ◽  
D. A. Griffiths

Conidia of Alysidium resinae (Fr.) M. B. Ellis (=Torula ramosa Peck) arise enteroblastically from polyblastic, ampulliform conidiogenous cells after mechanical rupture of the conidiogenous cell wall and are produced in either branched or unbranched acropetalous chains, successively younger conidia being produced enteroblastically from the immediately older conidia. There is no indication that conidial evagination occurs via enzymatically produced channels in the parent wall, protrusion being exclusively mechanical. Attention is drawn to the controversy surrounding the enteroblastic tretic mode of conidiogenesis.


1983 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 2618-2625 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. O. Inmann III ◽  
C. E. Bland

Conidiogenesis in Culicinomyces clavosporus Couch, Romney, and Rao (Deuteromycotina) is initiated with the growth of conidiogenous cells from vegetative hyphae. Formation of the primary conidium itself begins with a conidial initial which grows through the bilaminar wall at the tip of the conidiogenous cell, wall remnants of the conidiogenous cell often collapsing to form a collarette at the base of conidia. This factor, in addition to the fixed conidiogenous locus, shows that the conidiogenous cell is a phialide. As the conidial initial enlarges, a bilaminar well is synthesized around the cell, and cytoplasmic organelles migrate through the neck of the phialide into the initial. Once the conidium is mature, a septum is formed across the open neck of the phialide and two organelles (dense-core vesicles and autophagosomes), unique to conidia, become evident. The mode of development is enteroblastic–phialidic; Culicinomyces clavosporus is placed therefore in section IVB of the Hughes–Tubaki–Barron classification scheme described by B. Kendrick for the Deuteromycotina.



1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 2033-2036 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrence M. Hammill

Electron microscopy of conidiogenesis in Tritirachium roseum was done on material fixed in glutaraldehyde followed by OsO4. The walls of conidiogenous cells, though pigmented, lacked well-defined differential electron-transmission layers. Conidial initials developed without the appearance of a rupture in the conidiogenous cell wall, i.e., development was holoblastic. Each successively produced conidiogenous locus developed below and to one side of the previously formed conidium, and the fertile region of the conidiogenous cell elongated in a geniculate pattern. After each conidial initial reached full size, it was delimited by a centripetally developing septum, which increased in thickness, became double, and split during conidial secession. The distal half of a split septum formed the conidial base; the proximal half remained as part of the conidiogenous cell wall. Upon conidial secession, basal frills on conidia, and secession scars on conidiogenous cells were especially conspicuous.



1976 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 858-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. H. Ellis ◽  
D. A. Griffiths

Torula graminis produced blastoconidia in acropetalous chains after the evagination of a characteristic conidiogenous cell. Conidia consisted of up to 15 cells and their cell wall was differentiated into an outer melanized zone and an inner hyaline zone. A consistent cytoplasmic feature of conidial cells was the presence of dictyosomal-like membranous stacks often closely associated with the nucleus. Vesicles that developed from the dictyosomal-like cisternae were probably involved in conidial wall synthesis.



1971 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-601
Author(s):  
D. G. ROBINSON ◽  
R. D. PRESTON

Naked swarmers of both Cladophora rupestris and Chaetomorpha melagonium have been examined by the freeze-etching technique. The swarmers of Cladophora, collected just after settling, reveal several layers of granules external to the plasmalemma and internal to the so-called ‘fibrous-layer’. Chaetomorpha swarmers collected just before settling show extrusion of vesicles through the plasmalemma. The structures associated with the membranes are discussed in relation to known features of these swarmers already observed by sectioning. The role of granules in the synthesis of cell wall microfibrils is strengthened though the spatial arrangement of the granules seen in this investigation does not completely fulfil the ‘ordered granule’ hypothesis. Description of, and comments on, features related to cell wall synthesis, particularly the Golgi and vacuolar systems, are given.







1952 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 223 ◽  
Author(s):  
AB Wardrop ◽  
HE Dadswell

The fine structure of the cell wall of both ray and vertical parenchyma has been investigated. In all species examined secondary thickening had occurred. In the primary cell wall the micellar orientation was approximately trans"erse to the longitudiJ)aI cell axis. Using optical and X-ray methods the secondary cell wall was shown to possess a helical micellar organization, the micelles being inclined between 30� and 60� to the longitudinal cell axis.



1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (23) ◽  
pp. 2990-2999 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Faulkner ◽  
Warwick C. Kimmins

Tissue in Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Pinto bean bordering local lesions induced by tobacco mosaic virus showed cell wall deposition associated with paramural body formation in a narrow ring of viable cells extending one to three cell diameters around the lesions. Deposition, which led to secondary cell wall thickening, was greatest 3–4 days after inoculation, the time when the lesion stopped expanding. Secondary cell wall thickening, of similar appearance but less pronounced, was seen in tissue bordering local lesions which continued to expand; no significant secondary cell wall thickening was observed in leaves with a nonlocalized infection. Cells bordering mechanical lesions differed markedly in fine structure from cells bordering virus and chemical lesions. It is suggested that the deposition of extra cell wall material in the wall regions of cells bordering fully expanded local lesions is associated with virus localization.



1969 ◽  
Vol 47 (10) ◽  
pp. 1599-1603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun K. Mishra

The coenocytic alga Caulerpa sertularioides (Gmelin) Howe was used for the study of the ultrastructure of cell wall and cytoplasm. After ultrasonic maceration and metal shadowing of the cell wall the microfibrils were observed to be random at the tip and parallel for each lamella of the subtip region and the mature portions of rhizome. The microfibrils in the two adjacent lamellae crossed each other at about right angles. The microfibrils of wall trabeculae were parallel to each other and to the long axis of the trabeculae. Fine structure studies of the algal cytoplasm were made using material fixed with glutaraldehyde and osmium tetroxide. The rhizome growing point was studied in detail. A gradient in the differentiation of cytoplasm was observed. The appearance varied from compact, homogeneous cytoplasm in the tip to a reticulate, vacuolate organization in the region farther back. Compartmentation in the cytoplasm was noted in the region immediately behind the compact, homogeneous cytoplasm of the tip region. Numerous smooth-walled vesicles were scattered throughout the growing point of the alga and were observed close to the plasmalemma near the cell wall. Microtubules with axial orientation were observed near the side walls of the alga. These also occurred in parallel orientation with respect to the microfibrils in the trabeculae at the growing points of the latter. The results were discussed with respect to the roles of microtubules and the cytoplasmic vesicles in the process of wall formation.



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