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    Haustoria are appendages formed by parasitic fungi or plant roots that penetrate the host's tissue and absorb nutrients. Appressoria are localized swellings formed by fungi that help the germ tube or hyphae attach to and penetrate the host surface. Sclerotia are dense masses of aggregated somatic hyphae that serve as resistant resting structures that can remain dormant for long periods. Rhizomorphs are root-like structures thicker than mycelium that extend from the mycelium through the substrate to absorb nutrients and help the fungus spread.

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    Haustoria are appendages formed by parasitic fungi or plant roots that penetrate the host's tissue and absorb nutrients. Appressoria are localized swellings formed by fungi that help the germ tube or hyphae attach to and penetrate the host surface. Sclerotia are dense masses of aggregated somatic hyphae that serve as resistant resting structures that can remain dormant for long periods. Rhizomorphs are root-like structures thicker than mycelium that extend from the mycelium through the substrate to absorb nutrients and help the fungus spread.

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    Haustoria are appendages formed by parasitic fungi or plant roots that penetrate the host's tissue and absorb nutrients. Appressoria are localized swellings formed by fungi that help the germ tube or hyphae attach to and penetrate the host surface. Sclerotia are dense masses of aggregated somatic hyphae that serve as resistant resting structures that can remain dormant for long periods. Rhizomorphs are root-like structures thicker than mycelium that extend from the mycelium through the substrate to absorb nutrients and help the fungus spread.

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    Haustoria are appendages formed by parasitic fungi or plant roots that penetrate the host's tissue and absorb nutrients. Appressoria are localized swellings formed by fungi that help the germ tube or hyphae attach to and penetrate the host surface. Sclerotia are dense masses of aggregated somatic hyphae that serve as resistant resting structures that can remain dormant for long periods. Rhizomorphs are root-like structures thicker than mycelium that extend from the mycelium through the substrate to absorb nutrients and help the fungus spread.

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    Somatic Structures of Fungi

    Haustoria

    A haustorium (plural haustoria) is the appendage or portion of a parasitic fungus (the hyphal tip)
    or of the root of a parasitic plant (such as the broomrape family or mistletoe) that penetrates the
    host's tissue and draws nutrients from it. Haustoria penetrate the host plant's cell wall and absorb
    nutrients from the space between the cell wall and plasma membrane. The hyphal branch said to
    function as haustorium becomes extremely thin and pointed while piercing the host cell wall and
    expands in the cell cavity to form a wider, simple or branched haustorium. Haustoria may be
    knob like or balloon- like in shape elongated or branched like a miniature root system. The
    hyphae of obligate parasites of plants like downey mildew, powdery mildew or rust fungi late
    blight fungus etc., produce haustoria.

    Generally, on penetration, the fungus increases the surface area in contact with host plasma
    membrane releasing enzymes that break down the cell wall, enabling greater potential movement
    of organic carbon from host to fungus. Carbon from the host is absorbed by the fungus, and
    transported to the rest of the thallus. In some cases, the haustorium is necessary for fungal
    upatake of amino acids and sulphur/ phosphate rich molecules.

    Appressoria

    These are localized swellings of the tip of germ tube or older hyphae that develop in response to
    contact with the host. In simple these are special structures for attachment in the early stage of
    infection. Appressorium (p1. appressorium; L. apprimere = to press against) is a simple or lobed
    structure of hyphal or germ tube and a pressing organ from which a minute infection peg usually
    grow and enter the epidermal cell of the host. It helps germ tube or hypha to attach to the surface
    of the host or substrates. These appressoria are formed from germ tubes of Uredinales (rust
    fungi), Erysiphales (powdery mildew fungi) and other fungi in their parasitic or saprophytic
    stages. In addition to giving anchorage, appressoria help the penetrating hyphae, branches to
    pierce the host cuticle. In fungi like Colletotrichum falcatum, germ tubes from conidia and
    resulting hyphae form appressoria on coming in contact with any hard surface like soil etc. These
    appressoria are thought to function as resting structures (chlamydospores) also.

    Sclerotia

    A sclerotium is a resting body formed by aggregation of somatic hyphae into dense, rounded,
    flattened, elongated or horn shaped dark masses. They are usually found in the higher fungi, and
    in certain genera and species they can be of considerable size. The outer hyphae are usually
    thick-walled so that the whole structure appears firm and hard. The color is mostly brown or
    blackish even though the rest of the mycelium may be white. Sclerotia may store food and serve
    as resistant vegetative resting structures when they occur. Sclerotia are hard structures resistant
    to unfavorable physical and chemical conditions. they may remain dormant for longer periods of
    time, sometimes for several years and germinate on the return of favorable conditions. t he
    sclerotia on germination may be myceligenous and produce directly the mycelium e.g.
    Sclerotium rolfsii, Rhizoctonia solani and S. cepivorum (white rot of onion).

    Rhizomorph

    Rhizomorphs are root like structures, thicker than mycelium but much thinner than a mushroom
    stem that extend from the mycelium through the substrate. Rhizomorph is the aggregation of
    highly differentiated hyphae with a well defined apical meristem, a central core of larger, thin
    walled, cells which are often darkly pigmented. This root like aggregation is found in the honey
    fungus Armillariella mellea. They grow faster than the mycelia strands. The growing tip of
    rhizomorph resembles that of a root tip. The fungus may spread underground from one root
    system to another by means of rhizomorph.

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