FUNGI OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. III. THE DISTRIBUTION OF WOOD-INHABITING ASCOMYCETES AND FUNGI IMPERFECTI OF THE PATUXENT RIVER

The effects of changes in salinity and temperature on the distribution of wood-inhabiting Ascomycetes and Fungi Imperfecti in the Patuxent River were studied. Forty-one species of Ascomycetes and 83 species of Fungi Imperfecti were collected; Pyrenomycetes and dematiaceous Hyphomycetes predominated. Salinity was the most important factor affecting the distribution of fungi, and the major change in species composition occurred where freshwater and saltwater mix. The ratio of Ascomycetes to Fungi Imperfecti increased with increasing salinity, while the number of species collected generally decreased. Triadelphia heterospora Shearer and Crane was collected only at low temperatures and appears to be the only regularly occurring species whose distribution was affected by temperature. The interaction of temperature and salinity did not affect the distribution of four species that occurred regularly at wide ranges of temperature and salinity. Species composition differed between two limnetic stations, one above and the other below the discharge points of two sewage treatment plants.     

滇重楼的内生真菌及真菌中甾体化合物的分析

从采自云南的滇重楼(Paris polyphylla var.yunnanensis)根状茎韧皮部、木质部和种子中分离出50株内生真菌,其中从根状茎的韧皮部中分离出内生真菌最多。建立了甾体类化合物的检测和分析方法。检测到32株内生真菌的发酵培养物中含有甾体化合物,其中5株内生真菌的发酵培养物中甾体化合物的产率超过了50mg／L。     

STUDIES OF PALEOZOIC FUNGI. IV. WOOD-DECAYING FUNGI IN CALLIXYLON NEWBERRYI FROM THE UPPER DEVONIAN

An extensive fungal infection is present in silicified specimens of Callixylon newberryi (Dawson) Elkins and Wieland from the Upper Devonian of Indiana. Fungi are represented by branched, septate filaments with both terminal and intercalary chlamydospores. Clamp connections were not observed. Tracheids of the secondary xylem, decayed in varying degrees, show erosion troughs, cavities, and extensive lysis of tracheid walls. The pattern of decay is most similar to modern-day white rots, which are typically caused by basidiomycetes, while hyphal features are characteristic of either ascomycetes or basidiomycetes. The presence of wood decay coupled with a septate mycelium suggests the presence of higher fungi in the Devonian and indicates a more diverse Devonian mycoflora than has previously been recognized.     

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。     

中国热带地区半知菌III.(英)

本文报道采自广东热带地区的15种半知菌,其中有4个新种和2个中国新记录种:寄生在毛麝香 Adenosma glutinosum (L.) Druce上的毛麝香假尾孢 Pseudocercospora adenosmae Y. L. Guo,生于柑橘属Citrus sp.植物上的柑橘假尾孢 P. citri Y. L. Guo,生于木防己属Cocculus sp.植物上的木防己生假尾孢 P. cocculigena Y. L. Guo,生于腺萼木属Mycetia sp.植物上的腺萼木假尾孢P. mycetiae Y. L. Guo,生于西番莲Passiflora coerulea L.上的西番莲生尾孢Cercospora passifloricola Chupp和生于吴茱萸属Evodia sp.植物锈菌春孢子器上的春孢器生枝孢Cladosporium aecidiicola Th黰.。文中为新种提供了拉丁文简介、英文描述并附图,研究的标本保存在中国科学院微生物研究所菌物标本馆(HMAS)。     

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.