Affiliation:
1. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Abstract
Hyphal tips of fungi representing
Oömycetes, Zygomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes
, and
Deuteromycetes
were examined by light and electron microscopy and compared with respect to their protoplasmic organization. In all fungi studied, there is a zone at the hyphal apex which is rich in cytoplasmic vesicles but nearly devoid of other cell components. Some vesicle profiles are continuous with the plasma membrane at the apices of these tip-growing cells. The subapical zones of hyphae contain an endomembrane system which includes smooth-surfaced cisternae associated with small clusters of vesicles. The findings are consistent with the hypothesis that vesicles produced by the endomembrane system in the subapical region become concentrated in the apex where they are incorporated at the expanding surface. Septate fungi (
Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes
, and
Deuteromycetes
) have an apical body (Spitzenkörper) which is associated with growing hyphal tips. In electron micrographs of these fungi, an additional specialized region within the accumulation of apical vesicles is shown for the first time. This region corresponds on the bases of distribution among fungi, location in hyphae, size, shape and boundary characteristics to the Spitzenkörper seen by light microscopy. This structure is not universally associated with tip growth, whereas apical vesicles are widespread among tip-growing systems.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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