Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A family of fungi characterized by the formation of free spores within elongated cells (asci), often associated with alternation of generation. It includes a great variety of forms, such as the microscopic yeast-fungi or ferments, various mildews, ergot, the subterranean truffles, the morels, helvellas, etc., which represent the several orders Saccharomycetes, Perisporiaceœ, Pyrenomycetes, Tuberaceœ, and Discomycetes. Most of the lichens are now also generally considered as belonging to this family. See cut under
ascus .
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of ascomycete.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. large class of higher fungi .
- n. A large class of higher fungi distinguished by septate hyphæ, and by having their spores formed in asci, or spore sacs; the sac fungi. It comprises many orders, among which are the yeasts, molds, mildews, truffles, morels, etc. The class is coextensive with the phylum Ascomycota.
WordNet 3.0
- n. large class of higher fungi coextensive with division Ascomycota: sac fungi
Examples
“Two of his favourite mushrooms are truffles and morels, members of the important ascomycetes group of funghi, which also includes yeasts as well as the mould Penicillium chrysogenum from which penicillin is derived.”
“All ascomycetes produce asci at some stage in their life cycle.”
“Or was it one of the gasteromycetes, the coniomycetes, the hyphomycetes, the ascomycetes, or one of the physomycetes?”
“It was stated in the second paper of this series that the disposition of the _Lecideaceae_ in an early paper of the series would show what slight changes are needed in treating lichens as we treat other ascomycetes.”
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
“Mention may be made here, however, of the attempts in parts of France to cultivate truffles, species of subterranean fungi belonging to the ascomycetes (various species of the genus _Tuber_).”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“Together with colleagues at Harvard, Roper studied the airborne spores of more than 100 species of ascomycetes, the largest phylum of fungi.”
“While Roper and his colleagues found that ascomycetes eject spores at an unexpectedly forceful 1.24 meters per second, the spores decelerate very rapidly, heightening the importance of aerodynamics in reproductive success.”
“Peroxisome-like organelles, called Woronin bodies, plug the septa of the ascomycetes”
“Moreover the presence of 4 RGS - (Regulator of G-protein Signaling) proteins and 3 GprK-type G-protein coupled receptors comprising an RGS-domain suggest a more complex posttranslational regulation of G-protein signaling than in other ascomycetes.”
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