PEBO 315 Mycology and Lichens I (Lower Fungi)

This course is designed to give the students the understanding of the basic characteristics and ecology of fungi. It will enable the students to differentiate between sexual and asexual reproduction using these diagnostic characters to classify them. Knowledge of fungal taxonomy will enable students to diagnose causative agents of plant diseases. The economic importance of these fungi in Agriculture, Health, Medicine and Industry will be emphasized. In this course the classification of the current Dictionary of Fungi will be used to describe the lower fungi ie. Kingdom Protists, (Phylum: Dictyosteliomycota, Myxomycota, Acrasiomycota, Plasmodiophoromycota), Kingdom Stramenopila (Phylum: Oomycota and Labyrinthulomycota, Hyphochytridiomycota).