Mastigomycotina
1. Commonly known as Zoosporic fungi.
2. Typically found in aqautic environment
3. Because of their microcopic size they can not be observed in nature
directly
4. In some advanced species a few rhizoids are produced which serves to
anchor the unicellular thallus to its substratum.
5. Rarely, some species produce many branched rhizomycelium
6. Vegetative cells are either holocarpic or eucarpic.
7. Asexual reproduction by the formation of sporangium
8. Sexual reproduction mainly by gametangial copulation
i. by isogametes
ii. byAnisogametes
Diseases caused by Mastigomycotina
(Chytridiomycetes)
Synchytrium endobioticum: causes Potato wart disease
Physoderma zeaemaydis: Brown spot of corn
Urophlyctis alfaalfae: crown rot of alfalfa
Rhizophidium couchii: Parasitic on Spirogyra
Genus: Allomyces
• First discovered in India by [Link], 1911, British
Mycologist
• It consists of 6 species
• Based on three types of life cycle this genus, Emerson (1941)
• 1. Euallomyces- Isophorphic alternation of generation
• 2. Cystogenes- Heteromorphic alteration of generations
• 3. Brachy allomyces: No alternation of generations
Meiosporangium
mitosporangia
C15 H2402
Molecular weight 236
