Biology of Fungi
PBIO 310/510 - 97
10-1 TTh 305 Porter
| Professor:
J.Cavender 309 Porter 593-4551 10-1 MWF 3-5 TTh
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TA
: Jim Spurney 309 Porter 593-4551 9-10 TTh 1-2 MWF |
| Purpose: | To study the biology of fungi as well as the common local fungi and slime molds; their classification; ecology; cultivation; techniques for study; interrelationships with plants, animals and humans. | |
| Texts: | The
Fungi, Michael Carlile and Sarah Watkinson, 1994
Mushrooms Demystified, David Arora, 1985 |
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| Optional: | Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, Gary Lincoff, 1981, for use in the field and for identification of Myxomycetes | |
| Requirements: | ||
| I. | Collection and identification of 30 gilled mushrooms and boletes (Agaricales) (complete with dried specimens, descriptions and spore prints of the gilled mushrooms and boletes); 10 non-gilled mushrooms (Aphyllophorales) 5 from coral, tooth, chantrelle, crust, or jelly, 5 from puffball, earthstar, bird's nest, stinkhorn, fungi, 3 Ascomycetes, 3 Myxomycetes (dried specimens and description only). Specimens should be organized by family. Due October 23. | |
| II. | Photomicrographs of 7 prepared, permanent slides, the prints mounted in a notebook along with the host plant leaf for the parasites and the morphology labeled: 1) rust, 2) powdery mildew, 3) Penicillium or Aspergillus conidiophore, 4) dictyostelid sorocarp, 5) basidiomycete hymenium, 6) ascomycete hymenium, 7) myxomycete capillitium. Due November 11. | |
| III. | Oral report (15 min.) and 6-8 page paper (graduate student 20 min., 10-12 pages) on a particular fungus, fungus group, fungus activity or fungus interrelationship November 11, 13. | |
| IV. | 3 hour exams, 2 on identification, morphology, ecology and classification of basidiomycetes, ascomycetes and myxomycetes, 1 on life cycles (dictyostelid, myxomycete, ascomycete, basidiomycete, teliomycete [rust]) and mycorrhizal relationships | |
| Grading: | Exams
- 50%
Collection - 25% Oral Report and Paper - 12½% Photomicrographs - 12½% . |
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| Attendance: | Maximum 3 unexcused absences | |
| Schedule | ||
| Week 1 | Sept. 9 | Introduction, The fungi as a major group of organisms, C & W Ch. 1, How to collect fungi, Arora pp. 1-56, Field Trip - Dow Lake Area |
| 11 | Fungal diversity, the major groups of fungi, C & W Ch. 2, How to identify mushrooms, Arora 1-56, Field Trip - Dow Lake Area. | |
| Week 2 | 16 | Characteristics of mushroom genera, Amanitaceae, Boletaceae, Russulaceae, Arora 262, 488, 63. Film: "The Rotten World Around Us", Field Trip - Dow Lake Area |
| 18 | Characteristics of mushroom genera, Hygrophoraceae, Tricholomataceae, Entolomataceae, Pluteaceae, Arora 103, 129, 238, 253. Film: "The Rotten World Around Us", Field Trip - Dow Lake Area. | |
| Week 3 | 23 | Characteristics of mushroom genera, Agaricaceae, Coprinaceae, Strophoriaceae, Cortinariaceae, Arora, 310, 341, 367, 396. Field Trip - Waterloo Wil dlife Area. |
| 25 | Aphyllophorales, Arora 548, 549, 604, 611, 630, 658, 669, Saprotrophs and ecosystems, C & W Ch. 6, Field Trip - enderlin Forest | |
| Week 4 | 30 | Gasteromycetes, Arora 676, 677, 778, 782, Parasites and mutualistic symbionts, C & W Ch. 7, Field Trip - Lake Hope Area |
| Oct. 2 | Exam 1 - mushroom identification, classification, morphology and ecology. Field Trip - Ridges - collection of rusts and powdery mildews. | |
| Week 5 | 7 | Saprotrophs and Ecosystems, Alexopoulos (Library) Ch. 27, Dictyostelids, Ch. 29, Myxomycetes, Field Trip - Hocking Hills Area |
| 9 | Exam 2 - mushroom identification, classification, morphology and ecology; Field Trip - Dow Lake Area - Collection of soils for dictyostelids, Isolation of dictyostelids | |
| Week 6 | 14 | Mutualistic symbionts, Film: "Dr. Bonner and the Slime Molds", Isolation and study of dictyostelids |
| 16 | Mutualistic symbionts, Isolation and study of mycorrhizae. | |
| Week 7 | 21 | Fungi and biotechnology, C & W Ch. 8, Cultivation of fungi, Film: Shitake Cultivation. |
| 23 | Fungi and biotechnology, Field Trip: Mushroom cultivation. Collections due. | |
| Week 8 | 28 | Life Cycles, photomicrography: myxomycetes, dictyostelids, rusts, powdery mildews, basidiomycete and ascomycete hymenia, conidiophores of Aspergillus or Penicillium. |
| 30 | Life Cycles, photomicrography | |
| Week 9 | Nov. 4 | Exam 3 - Life Cycles, mycorrhizae, photomicrography |
| 6 | Photomicrography. | |
| Week 10 | 11 | Oral reports, Photomicroraphs due |
| 13 | Oral Reports | |