THE SUBEPIDERMAL FUNGI OF CEREAL GRAINS

Examination of samples received in 1947 and 1948 showed that a subepidermal mycelium occurred in normal wheat grains from almost all the wheat-growing areas of the world. The amount of mycelium varied widely: there are indications that the degree of infection is dependent on the atmospheric humidity during the ripening of the grain. No subepidermal mycelium was found in wheat grains from some crops grown under irrigation.     

THE CONTROL OF SEX IN FUNGI

Raper , John R. (Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.) The control of sex in fungi . Amer. Jour. Bot. 47(9) : 794–808. 1960.—The control of sexual processes in fungi is imposed at many successive points in the developmental cycle. Two major categories of controlling factors are recognized: (1) a predetermination of future sexual capacity follows from the segregation at meiosis of genetic factors that impose differentiation in respect to sexual sign or incompatibility type; (2) a coordinated progression of interdependent stages, governed by numerous genetic-metabolic factors, leads to plasmogamy, karyogamy, and meiosis. The major features of these 2 types of control—the several patterns of sexuality of the former and sexual hormones and sequential sexual development of the latter—are reviewed, and the possible relationship between the two levels of control is considered in some detail.     

化石菌类的分类系统

讨论化石菌类及其孢子的分类系统,即自然分类及人为分类系统,自然分类系统在孢粉学发展初期曾被广泛采用,随着孢粉学的发展,一些化石菌类缺乏明显的自然属性,其分类采用人为分类系统,Elsik依据细胞数目及萌发器特征首次建立了化石菌类的人类分类系统,但该分类系统未被广泛接受,Norris研究了加拿大第三纪菌类化石,但他未将菌类孢子的形态属归入相应的科、目和纲,宋之琛主要根据菌类孢子的萌发器特征,建立了菌类孢子分类系统,并将菌类孢子及其遗留体分为以下类型：无萌发器类型,单孔类型,双孔类型,三孔类型或三岐菌丝类型,子囊果状或多细胞类型及其他,依据宋之琛及Elsik分类系统及隔壁孔的特征,系统整理了已发现的中国第三纪化石菌类孢子,并将其归入相应的分类位置。     

THE SOIL FUNGI OF THE DOVEY SALT MARSHES

In this investigation of the fungi of the soil of the Dovey Salt Marshes (Ynyslas) 48 fungi were isolated.
Twelve of the species found do not appear to have been recorded before for the British Isles.
The area investigated is a badly aerated, stiff, tenacious clay, alkaline in reaction ( p H 8), with a high water content, due mainly to periodical inundations by tidal salt water.
Method of investigation consisted in taking samples of soil from a depth of 11/2 and 31/2 inches and either planting portions of this directly on to specially prepared media, or first shaking up a portion in water and then inoculating the prepared media with some of the suspension.
Three fungi– Torula allii, Penicillium hyphomycetis and Fusarium oxysporium var. resupinatum —were almost invariably present in every sample of soil: almost equally common were Trichoderma lignorum, T. Köningi, Hormodendron cladosporoides, Mucor circinelloides and Periconia felina .
Most of the fungi found are species found above ground as saprophytes, and may have been introduced into the soil by drainage, etc.
The writer considers fungi are active only in association with organic material.
The vegetation covering this marsh shows marked zonation: soil samples were chiefly taken from the Glycerietum and Aimerietum.
The same species of fungi were common to the two associations.
Glyceria maritima is a most effective silt binder, because the stele of its rhizomes and roots consists almost entirely of lignified tissue which does not yield to the activities of the soil fungi; Armeria maritima is not so effective a silt binder because the stele of its rhizomes and roots contains very little lignified tissue—at a depth of a foot, the tap roots of Armeria are little more than hollow tubes, the interiors having been removed by fungi and bacteria.     

真菌亲缘和分类学的进展

本文对真菌的亲缘和分类学进展的概况作了简要的叙述。真菌在亲缘上是一个异质的类群,有着不同的起源。而真菌分类学则吸收超微结构特征,遗传学和分子生物学的论据组成综合的分枝学科。     

ISOELECTRIC POINTS FOR THE MYCELIUM OF FUNGI

1. Mycelium of Rhizopus nigricans when stained with certain acid and basic dyes and washed with buffer mixtures of 0.1 M phosphoric acid and sodium hydroxide responded much like an amphoteric colloid with an isoelectric point near pH 5.0. 2. When grown on potato dextrose agar the reaction of which was varied with phosphoric acid the extent of colony growth of Rhizopus nigricans plotted against the initial Sörensen value of the agar produced a double maximum curve with the minimum between the two maxima at initial pH 5.2. 3. When grown in potato dextrose broth the reaction of which was varied with phosphoric acid the dry matter produced by Rhizopus nigricans plotted against the Sörensen value of the broth produced a double maximum curve with the minimum between the two maxima at initial pH 5.2 or average pH 4.9. 4. Mycelium of Rhizopus nigricans placed in buffer mixtures of 0.01 M phosphoric acid and sodium hydroxide of pH 4.1 to 6.3, changed the reaction in most cases toward greater alkalinity. 5. Mycelium of Fusarium lycopersici stained with certain acid and basic dyes and washed with buffer mixtures of 0.1 M phosphoric acid and sodium hydroxide responded much like an amphoteric colloid with an isoelectric point near pH 5.5.