In this article we will discuss about the definition of mycorrhiza. The term 'Mycorrhiza' is a composite word made up of two words mycos meaning fungi, rhizos meaning roots. Fungi in association of roots of flowering parts form the non pathogenic or feebly pathogenic association which is generally mutually symbiotic. In this association both the fungi and higher plants derive [...]
Read the below given notes to learn about heterothallism with the help of diagram. The term Heterothallism was first used by an American geneticist A.F. Blakeslee in 1904 when he observed that zygospores could develop in some spp. only when two mycelia of different strains were allowed to come in contact with each other. Blakeslee made these observations as a [...]
In this article we will discuss about the economic importance of fungi:- 1. Role of Fungi in Medicine 2. Role of Fungi in Industry 3. Role of Fungi in Agriculture 4. Role of Fungi as Food and as Food Producers. Fungi include hundreds of species which are of tremendous economic importance to man. In fact our lives are intimately linked [...]