EPP ex 2 slime molds

The Lower Fungi (Slime molds)

Very primitive group of fungal-like organisms. More closely related to protozoans belong to the kingdom Protists.

Slime mold’s main vegetative body is a

PLASMODIUM.

SLime molds cell structure

Mass of cytoplasm No cell wall Most species

slimemolds are a

in nature are saprophyte

Clubroot disease of cabbage Pathogen scientific name

Plasmodiophora brasiccae

What is the vegetative body of the Clubroot disease of cabbage

plasmodium

Clubroot of cabbage symptoms

Kills seedlings. Infected older plants become yellow and wilt. Most characteristic

symptom is club-shaped swellings/galls forming on the roots

Clubroot tratment

reisistant cultivars, soil fumagation, avoiding diesisased soils, increasing pH

Rhizomania caused by Beet necrotic yellow vein

virus transmitted by

Polymyxa betae (Slime mold)

how do smilmeolds move

B-flagellate (whiplash)

how od slime molds overwinter

Long lived resting spores