| The mychorrhizal fungi live on the roots and physically extend the plant's reach for nutrients and water with hairlike tentacles called hyphae. |
| Within these putrescent pools, black pycniospores fuse to form hyphae growing toward the opposite leaf surface. |
| These mutants lacked normal conidiophores and phialides and formed rod-shaped, catenated cells directly from hyphae. |
| Although the first cells from hyphae looked like conidiophores, they were slenderer than conidiophores of the wild type. |
| Fungi of this genus produce characteristic darkly pigmented, septate hyphae or conidia. |
| In addition, many fungi are able to parasitize spores, sclerotia, or hyphae of other fungi, resulting in biocontrol. |
