Plant Pathology Jeopardy


ADVANCED MYCOLOGY
(undergraduate and graduate students)

Categories: Bookstyles of the Fungal and Famous, Get A Life!, Porospores, Culinary Delights, X Rated, A Spore is Borne

BOOKSTYLES of the FUNGAL AND FAMOUS (book given, name author)

$100 "Genera of Hyphomycetes from Soil".

BARRON

$200 "Sylloge Fungorum".

SACCARDO

$300 "Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes".

ELLIS

$400 "The Genus Fusarium".

BOOTH

$500 "The Coelomycetes".

SUTTON

GET A LIFE (CYCLE) (ecology)

$100 The two types of dispersal spores.

WET, DRY

$200 Aleuriospores mostly do this.

REST

$300 Seasonal name sometimes given to conidial stages.

SUMMER

$400 Type of conidia adapted to aquatic surfaces.

STAUROSPORES

$500 Ecological type of spores mostly found in acervuli.

WET

POROSPORES

$100 Most porospores are this color.

DARK

$200 This fungus produces chains of porospores.

ALTERNARIA

$300 Conidiophores elongate by percurrent proliferation.

STEMPHYLIUM

$400 Two of the genera split out of Helminthosporium.

DRECHSLERA, BIPOLARIS

$500 Teleomorphs of porosporic fungi are mostly in this class.

LOCULOASCOMYCETES

CULINARY DELIGHTS

$100 This mold makes blue cheese.

PENICILLIUM ROQUEFORTII

$200 This fungus converts stale barley into a tasty beverage.

SACCHAROMYCES CERIVISEAE

$300 This tasty Discomycete is collected in the spring.

MORCHELLA

$400 This arthrosporic fungus spoils pickles but improves sausages.

GEOTRICHUM

$500 Visual: (hold up a piece of Brie)

PENICILLIUM CAMEMBERTII

X- RATED

$100 The type of spores dispersed in dry air.

XERIC

$200 Ascomycete centrum type.

XYLARIA

$300 Species of Fusarium that is common in soil.

OXYSPORUM

$400 Dutch mycologist who reclassified many Melanconiales, and also wrote a book on fungi sporulating in culture.

von ARX

$500 The term for herbarium specimens distributed to others.

EXSICCATEAE

A SPORE IS BORNE

$100 The first kind of conidial production to be described, done by Vieullemin in 1847.

PHIALOSPORES

$200 VISUAL (show a drawing or photo)

ALEURIOSPORE

$300 This unique conidial type is found in the powdery mildews.

MERISTEM ARTHROSPORE

$400 Budding yeasts are considered this spore type.

BLASTOSPORES

$500 Basidiospores are of this spore production type.

BLASTOSPORES


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Updated: July 7, 2001