Question

Is karyogamy delayed in basidiomycetes?

Answer 1

Yes. Karyogamy is delayed in basidiomycetes.

Basidiomycetes

• They are commonly known as ‘club fungi’.
• Jelly fungi, boletes, chanterelles, earth stars, smuts, bunts, rusts, mirror yeasts, and Cryptococcus, the human pathogenic yeast come under this group.
• They produce typically four spores outside a specialized spore producing structure called basidium.
• Spores produced by basidiomycetes are called basidiospores which are haploid but can change to uninucleate or multinucleate when it mature.