INTRODUCTORY MYCOLOGY: BIOM 423
Fall 2010, 3 cr. LEC 2 LAB 1, PGC, Rm 214, M W 1:00-4:00 (1 hr lecture and 2 hr lab), field trips.
Instructor: Dr. Cathy Cripps, Plant Sciences, office: 309 Plant Bioscience Bldg, Lab: 109 PBB.
Tele: 994-5226, Email: Ccripps@montana.edu Office hours: any time, call for appt. or stop by.
Text: Readings & webpages as assigned; Mushrooms Demystified by Arora (field guides will be available in
class)
This course surveys the incredible diversity of fungi, including all major groups with emphasis on
structures, life cycles, and identification. The recent explosion of knowledge relating to fungi in
research, medicine, agriculture, biotechnology, and industry, all have a basis in traditional mycology.
Lecture
M Aug 30
W Sept 1
W Sept 8
M Sept 13
W Sept 15
M Sept 20*
W Sept 22
M Sept 27*
W Sept 29
M Oct 4*
W Oct 6
M Oct 11
W Oct 13
M Oct 18
W Oct 20
M Oct 25**
W Oct 27
M Nov 1
W Nov 3
M Nov 8 *
W Nov 10
M Nov 15
W Nov 17
M Nov 22
M Nov 29
W Dec 1
M Dec 6
W Dec 8
F Dec 17
Introduction: the Fungal Lifestyle
Phylogeny of Fungi
BASIDIOMYCOTA introduction
Fleshy Basidiomycota
Mushroom Families (Agaricales,
Russulales, Boletales)
White-spored Mushrooms
Dark-spored Mushrooms
More on Mushrooms
Stomach Fungi (Gasteromycetes)
Fungi with pores, teeth, etc
(Aphyllophorales)
Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms
TEST 1: 1 specimen due for collection
Rusts (Uredinales)
Smuts (Ustilaginales)
Mycorrhizae: basis of terrestrial biomes
Fungal Ecology
ASCOMYCOTA introduction
Asexual Ascomycetes
Asexual Ascomycetes
Yeasts & Plectomycetes
Pyrenomycetes-flask fungi
TEST 2: 2 specimens due, collection
Discomycetes (& Loculoascomycetes)
ZYGOMYCOTA - sugar fungi
CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA - aquatic fungi
Fungal imposters:Oomycota
Slime molds
Evolutionary Overview of the Fungi
FINAL EXAM 8-10 am !
Grade: *5 Quizzes (lowest grade dropped)
Lab
Reading
Movie, or movie clips
Microscopic technique
tissue culture, spore prints
dichotomous keys
Mushroom ID
Field trip (time to be determined)
Mushroom ID
Mushroom ID
Work on collections
morphology vs.molecular data
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Polypores & allies, decomposition, ecology
Jelly fungi: phylogenetic anomalies
Work on collections
Rust ecology
Smut and plant disease
Mycorrhizal techniques
Animal-Fungal interactions
general groups - new phylogenies
‘Deuteromycetes’, isolation, culture, ID
‘Deuteromycete’ ID: computer use
Asco ID(cleistothecia),morphology vs molecul
Asco ID (perithecia), Loculoascomycetes
Work on collections
Cup fungi, morels, and truffle ID (apothecia)
Zygomycota ID
Frogs, fish eggs and parasitic Fungi
Oomycota environmental samples
Plants, animals, fungi, or protists?
Cook & taste-Edible Fungi; Collection Due
Not cumulative, last third of course
= 20%
**take home quiz on rusts/smuts due (required)
3 Written exams plus lab questions = 60 %
Fungal Collection
= 20%
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10 pts. x 4 = 40 pts
40 pts. x 3 = 120 pts
8 pts. x 5 = 40 pts
Total = 200 pts