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Ascomycota vs Basidiomycete - What's the difference?

ascomycota | basidiomycete |

ascomycota

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Ascomycota has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

basidiomycete

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (mycology) Any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota, that produces sexual spores on a basidium.
  • * 1996 , Brian Sutton, A Century of Mycology , page 135,
  • The result is that over all these initiatives in classification have hovered the spectres of basidiomycete , and especially ascomycete, taxonomy.
  • * 2008 , Donald M. Huffman, Lois H. Tiffany, George Knaphaus, Rosanne A. Healy, Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States , page 9,
  • The majority of macroscopic fleshy fungi are basidiomycetes'. '''Basidiomycetes''' produce spores on a basidium, the basic feature that separates them from other groups of fungi. Some of the '''basidiomycetes''' forcibly discharge their spores from the basidia, which remain after spore discharge. Other ' basidiomycete groups release their spores by collapse of the basidia, which are not present in the mature fruiting body.
  • * 2010 , Meredith Blackwell, Fungal evolution and taxonomy'', Helen E. Roy, Fernando E. Vega, Dave Chandler (editors), ''The Ecology of Fungal Entomopathogens , page 7,
  • Among basidiomycetes there are classic examples of farming interactions in which Old World termites cultivate a monophyletic group of fungi and New World leaf-cutting ants cultivate two distinct cultivar groups (Currie et al. 2003; Munkacsi et al. 2004; Little and Currie 2008).

    See also

    * Basidiomycota