Ascomycota

fungi and fungal-like organisms • plant diseases • pests-diseases-weeds

asci (A) and ascospores (B) of the fungus Peziza. Scale bar = 0.02mm. (click on image to enlarge it)
Authors: Jon Houseman and Matthew Ford
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Ascomycota

The Ascomycota are a large group of fungi and include many plant pathogens. The sexual fruiting bodies (ascocarps) have various shapes but all contain sac-like structure (the asci) which produce ascospores. The group also includes several genera and species which reproduce asexually only. Further, some single-celled groups do not form fruiting bodies, instead the cells develop into asci during sexual reproduction.

Note:
Please note that this page only deals with plant pathogens, for beneficial groups of Ascomycota see:

• antagonistic Ascomycota
• entomopathogenic Ascomycota
• weed pathogens in Ascomycota

The following groups and classes are here included:

• anamorphic Ascomycota (3 species)
• Dothideomycetes (343 species)
• Eurotiomycetes (30 species)
• Leotiomycetes (111 species)

• Pezizomycetes (1 species)
• Saccharomycetes (3 species)
• Sordariomycetes (442 species)
• Taphrinomycetes (2 species)