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Fungi

(Encyclopedia)Fungi fŭnˈjī [key], kingdom of heterotrophic single-celled, multinucleated, or multicellular organisms, including yeasts, molds, and mushrooms. The organisms live as parasites, symbionts, or saprob...

bracket fungi

(Encyclopedia)bracket fungi: see Fungi.

diseases of plants

(Encyclopedia)diseases of plants. Most plant diseases are caused by fungi, bacteria, and viruses. Although the term disease is usually used only for the destruction of live plants, the action of dry rot and the rot...

decay of organic matter

(Encyclopedia)decay of organic matter or putrefaction, process whereby heterotrophic organisms, including some bacteria, fungi, saprophytic plants, and lower animals, utilize the remains of once-living tissue as a ...

Ascomycota

(Encyclopedia)Ascomycota, a phylum of the kingdom Fungi. ...

Deuteromycota

(Encyclopedia)Deuteromycota, a phylum of the kingdom Fungi. ...

Basidiomycota

(Encyclopedia)Basidiomycota, a phylum of the kingdom Fungi. ...

mildew

(Encyclopedia)mildew, name for certain fungi and protists, for the diseases they cause in various crops, and for the discoloration (and sometimes the weakening and disintegration) they cause in such materials as le...

Zygomycota

(Encyclopedia)Zygomycota zīˌgōmīkōˈtə [key], a phylum of the kingdom Fungi. ...

smut

(Encyclopedia)smut, name for an order of parasitic fungi (Ustilaginales) and the various diseases of plants caused by them. Smuts produce sootlike masses of spores on the host. The spore masses may break up into a ...