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Fungi - MSN Encarta Fungi that are intimately associated with roots of higher plants form mycorrhiza, a specialized type of hyphal growth in which a portion of the mycelium either wraps itself around the tips of roots, forming a velvety white cover, or penetrates into the cortex of the root. The morels, truffles, and cup fungi are well-known ascomata, with asci borne at the upper surface. Tooth fungi, Hydnaceae, have the hymenium on spiny outgrowths. uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551534_2/Fungi.html   (1778 words)

BrackAppend Bracket fungi are so-called because they grow from the sides of trees like shelves. Bracket fungi are not the most attractive fungi and tend to be drab and uninteresting. Bracket fungi are wood rotters par excellence and, like many other fungi, play a vital role in the Carbon Cycle in processing woody debris. www.uoguelph.ca /~gbarron/BRACKET/brackapp.htm   (652 words)

BracketF   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Bracket Fungi, any of about 1,000 species of generally tough or woody fungi named after the bracket-like or shelf-like shape of their fruiting bodies, or basidiomata. Bracket fungi are familiar in woodlands, where they may cause the rapid decay of stumps and fallen trees and shrubs (or even telephone poles or timber). Most bracket fungi are annuals that produce new basidiomata each year, although some are perennials that produce another layer of tubes on old brackets each year and may last for several years. web.singnet.com.sg /~garyto/bracketf.htm   (212 words)

Fungi. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 Some types of fungi are involved in symbiotic relationships, for example, lichens (a combination of a fungus and a green alga or a cyanobacterium) and the mycorrhizae (symbiosis between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant). Basidiomycota includes the gill fungi (most mushrooms), the pore fungi (e.g., the bracket fungi, which grow shelflike on trees, and an edible type called tuckahoe), and the puffballs. Fungi are valuable economically as a source of antibiotics, of vitamins, and of various industrially important chemicals, such as alcohols, acetone, and enzymes, as well as for their role in fermentation processes, as in the production of alcoholic beverages, vinegar, cheese, and bread dough. www.bartleby.com /65/fu/Fungi.html   (898 words)

What is... ? Bracket fungus - A bracket, or shelf, fungus is one in which the fruiting body, or sporophore, grows laterally out of the substrate, which is usually a tree. Bracket fungi are usually tough or hard in consistency, and some are perennial, living and producing spores for several years. The mycelium that produces the bracket resides in the tissues of the tree, usually causing a rot disease of the internal tissues of the tree. www.plant.uga.edu /mycology-herbarium/whatis.htm   (2099 words)

Fungi Bracket fungi, bird’s nest fungi, coral fungi are also fruiting bodies of basidiomycetes; they are often found on rotting wood. Fungi, together with bacteria, are responsible for most of the recycling which returns dead material to the soil in a form in which it can be reused. Fungi are eaten directly as a type of vegetable or used as a fermentative agent to convert foods into alternative forms. www.unlv.edu /faculty/landau/fungi.htm   (4563 words)

! Rainforest Fungi ! Tropical Rainforest, Far North Queensland Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Fungi are heterotrophic (they do not produce their own energy like plants) and obtain energy from complex food, like dead or living plants and animal tissue. Bracket fungi are made of stronger material so do not need water for their structure. Fungi hair-like filaments invade dead plant matter, and are sometimes parasitic on tree roots. rainforest-australia.com /fungi.htm   (1041 words)

BRACKET1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Many of the wood-rotting fungi that grow on trees produce large, perennial, bracket-shaped fruitbodies and release their basidiospores through small pores on the underside. In contrast to the perennial brackets of Fomes and Ganoderma, the birch polypore (Piptoporus betulinus) is a host-specialised invader of birch trees (Betula spp.) in which it causes an intense white rot. The brackets expand progressively in the first growing season, up to about 15 cm wide, and persist through the winter but then they decay and may be replaced by further annual fruitbodies in subsequent seasons. helios.bto.ed.ac.uk /bto/FungalBiology/bracket.htm   (402 words)

Mushroom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Together with bacteria, fungi are responsible for the decay and decomposition of organic matter. The bracket fungi, also called the shelf fungi, is named for the bracket like shape of its fruiting body. Bracket fungi, as seen below, are found attached to the sides of decaying trees or shrubs. www.dekalb.k12.ga.us /~marbut/wetlands/Mushroom.htm   (222 words)

Bracket Fungi Fungi that digest the cellulose and leave the lignin behind are called "carbonizing decays" or "brown rots" because they make the wood dry, brittle and darker than the original wood. Fungi that digest cellulose and lignin are called "delignifying decays" or "white rots" because they make the wood soft, spongy and whiter than the original wood. In the forest, rot fungi are very beneficial because they decompose stumps and fallen dead trees, thus returning their massive remains back to the soil. waynesword.palomar.edu /bracfung.htm   (513 words)

Orchids and fungi Fungi that are apparently symbiotic can turn nasty and attack the orchid; furthermore the fungi of epiphytes may invade the orchid's host tree to the tree's (and ultimately the orchid's) detriment. Fungi are difficult to isolate and difficult to grow (especially to the usually readily identifiable perfect state), and even in one orchid species, the fungus required by the protocorm may be different from that required by the adult. Failure of germination was caused by fungal hyphae failing to penetrate the seed, or by penetrating all the embryo's cells resulting in death of the embryo [21]. www.anos.org.au /groups/newzealand/biology/fungi.htm   (2194 words)

Royal Horticultural Society - Gardening Advice: Bracket Fungi Characteristic brackets or semicircular, flattened fungal fruiting bodies with pores or gills underneath, appear on the trunk of trees. Some fungi tend to cause top rots, where branches of a tree may be lost. If bracket fungi are seen on a tree, it may be in poor condition. www.rhs.org.uk /advice/profiles0901/bracket_fungi.asp   (242 words)

Cubberla-Witton - Fungi Fungi are powerful and important recyclers breaking down decaying plant matters. Specific types of fungi are found in the vicinity of certain trees with which they form a symbiotic relationship. These are formed on the surface of gills, inside tubes, in sac-like bodies, on smooth surfaces of some fungi, or in a slimy smelly mass on the outside of fruiting bodies. www.cubberlawitton.org /fungi   (242 words)

bracket - Search Results - MSN Encarta asterisk, backslash, bracket, colon, comma, dash, exclamation mark, full stop, hyphen, inverted comma, parenthesis, period, point, question mark,... Bracket Fungi, also shelf fungi, any of about 1000 species of generally tough or woody fungi named for the bracketlike or shelflike shape of their... Increases in income due to inflation can push people into higher tax brackets, a phenomenon known as bracket creep. ca.encarta.msn.com /bracket.html   (169 words)

100 Plant Facts: Fungi Fungi are a Kingdom distinct from true Plants (although traditionally they have been the domain of the botanist). The number of fungi described worldwide is estimated at around 70,000, but their total number may be as high as 1.5 million species. Fungi are divided into the Oomycota ('lower fungi'), with cellulose cell walls, and the Eumycota ('true fungi'), with chitin cells walls, which is similar to the material of the human fingernail. www.plant-talk.org /Pages/Pfacts3.html   (614 words)

BioEd Online Slides: chitin, fungi, heterotrophic, decomposers, yeast Fungi are important decomposers in ecosystems as they break down organic materials such as dead organisms, leaves, old wood, and feces. Fungi cause plant diseases such as fl spot, corn smut, wheat rust, and mildews that affect a variety of fruits. Fungi cells supply the plant with more nutrients and water than normally would be absorbed by the roots alone, and the plant provides the fungus with products of photosynthesis. www.bioedonline.org /slides/slide01.cfm?q=chitin   (394 words)

Kingdom Fungi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Fungi are prokaryotic, their cells do not have a nucleus and organelles. Fungi are eukaryotic, their cells do not have a nucleus and organelles. Fungi are eukaryotic, their cells having a nucleus and organelles. school.discovery.com /quizzes13/zagzoo/FungiTest.html   (1030 words)

KINGDOM FUNGI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) Fungi are Eukaryotic Organisms with nuclei and mitochondria. Fungi that make aflatoxin may be found as contaminants in peanuts and in grains such as corn and grain sorghum. Fungi are used to produce Chemical Compounds that are important to the food-processing industry such as Citric and Gluconic Acid. www.sirinet.net /~jgjohnso/fungi.html   (2599 words)

Teaching the fungal tree of life Fungi are a difficult group to define because they are a group whose members appear so different when looking only at their shapes and structures. Fungi survive by absorptive nutrition—meaning that they secrete enzymes to digest organic compounds outside their cells, and then absorb the small molecules such as sugars that are left.. Fungi have cell walls that are made of chitin—, which is similar to the cellulose of wood. www.clarku.edu /faculty/dhibbett/TFTOL/content/1fungal_bio_intro.html   (499 words)

Shades of Green: Earth's Forests -- Fungi This is because fungi lack the chemical called chlorophyll, which allows plants to photosynthesize*. The fungi are part of this food chain, along with bacteria and soil-dwelling insects. There are exceptions, however, and some fungi, such as bracket fungi, can be found growing in living trees. library.thinkquest.org /17456/fungiall.html   (630 words)

FungiBank - Glossary fungi differ from ectomycorrhizal fungi by penetrating inside the cells of plant roots and not forming a sheath around the roots. fungi (macrofungi) any fungus which produces structures (usually fruit bodies) that are clearly visible to the naked eye, such as mushrooms, toadstools, puffballs, cup fungi, and truffles. fungi (saprotrophs, saprophytes, saprobes) fungi that obtain nutrients and energy from dead and decaying organic matter such as in soil, litter or wood. www.fungibank.csiro.au /glossary.htm   (2161 words)

Kingdom Fungi However, on closer inspection, you would notice that the fungi are lacking chlorophyll, leaving them unable to produce their own food (although many plants lack chlorophyll as well). Fungi are either decomposers or parasites, and they have extracellular digestion and absorption of organic nutrients. Characteristics: basidiomycetes ("club fungi"); reproduce asexually by budding, fragmentation of mycelium, or forming conidia; reproduce sexually by forming a club-like basidium (pl. basidia) which bears haploid spores (usually four) on its surface; have dikaryotic stage. www.und.nodak.edu /dept/jcarmich/102lab/labshtml/fungi.html   (1086 words)

Bracket fungus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bracket fungi, or shelf fungi, are fungi, notable for bearing fruiting bodies (conk) as or in a "bracket": a grouping of individual mushroom caps that lie in a close planar grouping of separate or interconnected horizontal rows. The beefsteak fungus, a well known bracket fungus, is actually a member of the agarics. Other examples of bracket fungi include the sulphur shelf, birch bracket, dryad's saddle and turkey tail. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bracket_fungus   (204 words)

Bracket Fungi - Search Results - MSN Encarta Bracket Fungi, any of about 1,000 species of generally tough or woody fungi named after the bracket-like or shelf-like shape of their fruiting... Within the Basidiomycota there are many sapropytic fungi that live on dead or decaying organic matter, including the mushrooms, the coral fungi, and... Yeast, any of a number of microscopic, one-celled fungi important for their ability to ferment carbohydrates in various substances. uk.encarta.msn.com /Bracket_Fungi.html   (123 words)

Fungi Among the topics examined are slime molds, nematode-trapping fungi, Pilobolus, truffles, morels, ergot, yeasts, stinkhorns, puffballs, bracket fungi, bird's-nest fungi, smuts, rusts, poisonous and hallucinogenic fungi, Black Forest mushrooms, mushroom culture, antibiotics, industrial products obtained from fungi, and fungi in nature. All true fungi are filamentous or unicellular heterotrophs, most of which absorb their food in solution through cell walls. Sexual reproduction in lichens is similar to that of the sac fungi except ascomata produce spores continuously for many years. academic.kellogg.edu /herbrandsonc/bio111/fungi.htm   (452 words)

Museum Victoria [Forest Secrets] Plants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) This large orange bracket fungus is usually found on dead wood after fire. Bracket fungi are important decomposers of woody debris in wet forests. A common tough-textured multi-shelved bracket fungus found on lower trunks of trees and dead stumps. www.museum.vic.gov.au /forest/plants/bracket.html   (75 words)

Birch bracket - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Birch Bracket (Piptoporus betulinus - also known as Razor Strop) is one of the most common polyporous bracket fungi and, as the name suggests, grows almost exclusively on Birch trees. It is a necrotrophic parasite on weakened Birches, and will cause brown rot and eventually death, being one of the most common fungi visible on dead Birches. It is likely that the birch bracket fungus becomes established in small wounds and broken branches and may lie dormant for years, compartmentalised into a small area by the tree's own defence mechanisms, until something occurs to weaken the tree. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birch_bracket   (582 words)

Bracket Fungi - Search Results - MSN Encarta Bracket Fungi - Search Results - MSN Encarta Fungus, any member of a diverse group of organisms that—unlike plants and animals—obtain food by absorbing nutrients from an external source. Search for books about your topic, "Bracket Fungi" encarta.msn.com /Bracket_Fungi.html   (143 words)

California Fungi -- Simple Key to Major Groups The fleshy fungi are divided into two groups based on how the spores (microscopic sexual reproductive cells) are formed. Leathery conks or brackets, typically perennial, occasionally annual and fleshy; fertile layer poroid, less commonly gill-like, labryinthoid, or tooth-like, not readily separable from the rest of the fruiting body; lignicolous or occaisonally terrestrial. Saprophytic and parasitic fungi, fertile tissue consisting of minute asci-lined flasks embedded in variously shaped fruiting structures; examples: branched structure of Xylaria species, parasitizing Hypomyces molds of Russula, Suillus, Boletus, and Helvella species, and slender, capped fruiting bodies of Cordyceps growing from an insect or hypogeous fungus host like Elaphomyces species. www.mykoweb.com /CAF/skey.html   (671 words)

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