Fungal cell biology 1

• what percentage of angiosperm plants form a mycorrhizal symbiosis with fungi

  95%
• difference between yeast cells and hypha

  • Yeast cells are uni-cellular, often rounded
  • Hyphal cells usually multi-cellular and elongated
• what is the spitzenkorper

  Hyphal growth involves an apical body, consists of vesicles
• what is the function of the spitzenkorper

  Secretory vesicles and endocytic vesicles are accumulating in the Spitzenkörper
• what does motility of spitzenkorper determine

  hyphal growth
• how are vesicles delivered to the hyphal tip

  by the fungal cytoskeleton
• how many types of kinesins, dyneins and myosins are in fungi

  10 , 1, 4
• what are woronin bodies

  peroxisome-derived organelles that contain crystals of self-assembled Hex1 protein, isolate damaged hyphal cells