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3 - Environmental sensing and the filamentous fungal lifestyle

from I - Imaging and modelling of fungi in the environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2009

By
Nick D. Read
Edited by
Geoffrey Gadd ,
Sarah C. Watkinson  and
Paul S. Dyer
Nick D. Read
Affiliation:
Institute of Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh
Geoffrey Gadd
Affiliation:
University of Dundee
Sarah C. Watkinson
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Paul S. Dyer
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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Introduction

The majority of fungi have a filamentous lifestyle. The evolution of the hypha has been pivotal to the success of filamentous fungi and in determining the uniqueness of their lifestyle. It has also had important consequences in determining the modes of morphogenesis of filamentous fungi, and how they operate as non-motile, heterotrophic organisms (Read, 1994). This review focuses on hyphal and colony morphogenesis and how it is influenced by environmental signals in the context of the filamentous fungal lifestyle.

The supracellular, cellular and multicellular nature of filamentous fungi

The defining cellular element of the filamentous fungi is the hypha (Figs. 3.1–3.6). Hyphae possess a unique combination of structural, behavioural and functional attributes that clearly distinguish them from uninucleate animal and plant cells. The vegetative hypha is a tip-growing cellular element (Harris et al., 2005) (Figs. 3.1, 3.2) that undergoes regular branching (Trinci, 1983; Turner & Harris, 1997) (Figs. 3.3, 3.4), is typically multinucleate (Fig. 3.3) (Freitag et al., 2004), and possesses incomplete cross-walls (septa) which, when open, allow movement of cytoplasm and organelles between hyphal compartments (Harris, 2001) (Fig. 3.2). In sub-peripheral regions of the colony, hyphae frequently fuse with one another (Read & Roca, 2006) (Fig. 3.3) and septal pores often become blocked (Gull, 1978) (Fig. 3.2). Vegetative hyphae thus have a supracellular nature because they are part of a network of interconnected hyphal compartments and hyphae within the colony (Fig. 3.1).

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Fungi in the Environment , pp. 38 - 57
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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