ISSN:
1615-6110
Keywords:
Basidiomycetes
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Polyporus ciliatus
;
Fruiting
;
Genetic control
;
Breeding
;
Sexuality
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Apomixis
;
Speciation
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Abstract Using mainly the basidiomycetePolyporus ciliatus, we were able to produce fully developed fruitbodies not only in the normal meiotic cycle (teleomorphic = perfect) but in some stocks also in the mitotic cycle (anamorphic = imperfect) of exclusively haploid mycelia. These haploid and mitotic fruitbodies can be distinguished from dikaryotic ones only by microscopic examination, i.e. by their lack of clamp connections, karyogamy and meiosis, the production of two-spored basidia with few, but larger basidiospores. Using three other stocks of isogenic mycelial strains that did not form any fruiting structures from either haploid or dikaryotic mycelia with clamp connections, we could not find any evidence for a “fruiting initiation gene” as was postulated byEsser & al. (1977). No fruitbodies occurred in compatible combinations within one isogenic stock, but normal fruitbodies are produced abundantly in crossings of different isogenic stocks. We were able to confirm these results with the help of the non-fruiting strains originally used byStahl & Esser (1976).—Our experimental results are compatible with the hypothesis suggested byKniep (1930): The genetic control of the sexual cycle by the mating type factors A and B on the one hand, and of the fruitbody formation on the other, are essentially independent. For the latter, a multitude of different genes has been proposed. Fruitbody formation thus is a typical polygenic character. The results of experiments on two other morphological characters i.e. primordia and coralloid structures, also correspond with this genetic concept.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00989011
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