HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Fungi are a diverse group of organisms with a huge variation in reproductive strategy. While almost all species can reproduce sexually, many reproduce asexually most of the time. When sexual reproduction does occur, large variation exists in the amount of in-and out-breeding.

Detailed explanation-2: -Termitomyces fungi have both an asexual and a sexual life cycle [3]. The asexual cycle is the dominant lifecycle in a colony, while the sexual life cycle is required for symbiont dispersal to new colonies [8]. Within a nest the fungus is grown on airy structures of plant substrate, called the fungus comb.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sexual reproduction also occurs in virtually all fungi. This involves mating between two haploid hyphae. During mating, two haploid parent cells fuse, forming a diploid spore called a zygospore.

Detailed explanation-4: -Although fragmentation, fission, and budding are methods of asexual reproduction in a number of fungi, the majority reproduce asexually by the formation of spores.

Detailed explanation-5: -Homothallic – When both mating types are present in the same mycelium. It is also called self-fertile. Heterothallic – When both mating types are present in two different mycelium.