Funaria Capsule Diagram
Basic types of fungal nutrition (FOR UG/PG STUDENTS)
Different modes of nutrition in fungi The fungi are chlorophyll less organisms which cannot synthesize their own food unlike green plants. They are so simple in structure that they cannot obtain inorganic food directly from the soil and therefare , they are always dependent for their food on some dead orgainic materials or living beings. The different modes of nutrition in fungi are as follows---- 1. Parasitic mode: Fungi, which obtain food from living organisms are called parasitic fungi. The parasitic fungi absorbe their food material from the living tissue of host. They are quite harmful to their host and cause many serious diseases. Parasitic fungi may be ectoparasite i.e., grow out side the plant body (eg. Erysiphe ); or may be endoparasite i.e., grow inside the plant body (eg. Phytophthora ) parasitic fungi are farther classified as----- (a) Obligat...
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