Bio 430 Molds and Mushrooms 2008

Instructor: R. Pinette Office Hours: Folsom 307, MWF 11-12

Text: Moore-Landecker, E. 1996. Fundamentals of Fungi 4^th ed.

Field Guide: Miller

Course Outline. Lecture MWF, 10-10:50. Lab Tuesday, 1:40-4:40

WEEK OF

CHAPTERS (PAGES)

LECTURE TOPICS

TUESDAY LAB

8/28 M

1 (1-5)
1(6-14)
12 (347-9)

An Overview: Collecting Mushrooms
Some Fundamentals Concepts
Basidia types and spore discharge

Collection and Identification
(Campus Woods)

9/4 M

6 (189-197)

Labor Day—No Classes
Gilled Mushrooms I

Gilled Mushrooms II
Saturday Field Trip (September 9)

Examples of Gilled Mushrooms/Micro-
scopic Features

9/11 M

6 (173-188)

6 (198-210)

6(160-5)

Non-gilled Mushrooms I
Gasteroid Fungi

Life Cycle of Amanita

Examples of non-gilled mushrooms

9/18 M

5 (103-114)
5 (115-125)

Introduction to Ascomycota
Ascomata types

Exam #1 (Chapters 1 & 6)

Examples of gasteroid fungi

9/25 M

5 (120-143)

Apothecial Perithecial Fungi

Life Cycle of Peziza
Preparing a database/ (Lab Test#1)

Examples of Ascomycota#1

(Campus hunt for rusts and mildews)

10/2 M

5(143-146)
5 (146-156)
4 (82-89)

Pseudothecial Fungi
Cleistothecial Fungi and Yeasts
Zygomycota Life Cycle (Mucorales)

Ascomycota#2

10/9 M

4(89-97)

Columbus Day—No Classes

Other orders of Zygomycota
Exam # 2 ( Chapters 5)

No lab this week

10/16 M

7 (213-219)

7 (220-224)

3(33-45)

Deuteromycota—Conidia types

Deuteromycota—Classification

Zoosporic Fungi

Examples of Zygomycota/ Set up soil plates.

DATE

CHA (PAGES)

LECTURE TOPIC

LAB

10/23 M

3 (60-79)

14 (407-8; 415-19)

Oomycota

Film on molds—“It’s Rotten World”
Parasites of Plants

Examples of

Deuteromycota /
Mold Isolates

10/30 M

14 (420-429)
6 (166-172)

6 (172-173)

Parasites of Plants /(Lab Test #2)
Rusts and Rust Life Cycle

Smuts

Asco/ Zygomycota Test
Identifying Molds

11/6 M

16 (482-487)

Lichen Form and Structure

Exam # 3 (Chapters 3,7 &14)

Veterans Day—No Classes

Examples of Zoosporic Fungi

11/13 M

16 (488-92)

15 (453-463)

15 (464-9)

Lichen Reproduction & Physiology Medical Mycology

Allergens and Toxins

Examples of Rusts and Smuts

11/20 M

17 (533-546)

Fungi Taste Test (Lab Test #3)

Thanksgiving 11/22-11/26

Lichens

11/27M

Work on Collections

Work on Collections Deuteromycota, Oomycota, Rusts, Smuts & Lichens Test

12/4 M

Work on Collections

12/11 M

Work on Collections

Course Evaluation (Dec 13)

Collections/Notebooks Due (Dec. 15)

Lab Clean UP

Exam # 4 (Chapters 15, 16, 17)

Wednesday Dec 20, 10:15-12:15

II. Student Evaluations.

                Four Prelim Exams (50-60 pts. each ) = 230 ( 57.5%)
                Three Lab Tests ( 3 X 15)                      =   45 ( 11.25%)
                Collection                                                =    75 (25.0%)
                Laboratory notebook                               =    25 ( 6.25%)

Total possible Score 375 (100%)

See General Course Policies for conversion of percentage to a letter grade.

III. Examinations will consist of definitions, diagramming, fill-in tables, short answer and essay. Your are expected to respond to these questions in blue or black ink and with complete sentences and standard punctuation. Diagramming questions may be done in pencil, but all structures must be clearly labeled.

Laboratory. The laboratory supports lecture material dealing with structure and classification. Students will make careful observations in a laboratory notebook which will be handed in for grading at the end of the term. Students will need to purchase the one of the following mushroom guide:

Gary Lincoff. 1981. The Audubon Society Field Guide to The Mushrooms of North America ISBN: 0-394-51992-2 costs about 19$. It’s portable with lots of colored pictures and good descriptions. It does a fairly comprehensive job of covering most the common macroscopic fungi. Available at the campus bookstore.

Miller. Orson and Miller Hope. 2006. North American Mushrooms. A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Globe Pequot Press. 585 pp. ISBN:078-0-7627-3109-1. $25.95. Available through Borders or Amazon. com. Taxonomic keys are provided along with photographs and descriptions.

IV. Lab Tests. Three laboratory tests will be given during regular laboratory periods. Demonstrations consisting of preserved materials and prepared slides will be accompanied by questions on group recognition (division, order or family), names of structures and their function.

V. Collections. See Instructions for Collecting Fungi. Students will prepare dried materials and cultures for this assignment. A total of 20 specimens must be submitted. These must be in a packet with a computer generated label prepared from a student database. Mold cultures must be turned in as slants with a label affixed to each tube.

Additional information and instructions will be provided during regular laboratory periods. Students may submit up to six additional specimens for 30 points extra credit.

VI. Lab Notebook. You will be expected to maintain a notebook of your laboratory work during the term. Composition notebooks, available at the bookstore, are good for this purpose.

· The first half of the notebook will be a permanent record of your field collections.

· The other half of the notebook will contain dated entries with laboratory observations, diagrams and other information form all other materials shown as part of laboratory exercises.

BE SURE TO HAVE THIS NOTEBOOK WITH YOU AT EACH LAB MEETING. I will spot check your notebooks periodically. A 10 % penalty will be assessed if it is not up to date or should you fail to have this notebook with you during lab.