Fungal Hyphae
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A Method for Sample Preparation to Visualize Biofilm Forming Bacteria on Fungal Hyphae
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2025
This video describes a method to grow and qualitatively analyze bacterial biofilms on fungal hyphae using microscopy. Bacterial biofilms frequently form on fungal surfaces and involve numerous bacterial-fungal interaction processes, such as metabolic cooperation, competition, or predation.
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A Technique to Quantify Fungal Infection in Zebrafish Larvae
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2025
This video demonstrates a method to quantify fungal infection in zebrafish larvae. Fungal spores are microinjected into the larval hindbrain ventricle, and the larvae are incubated to allow infection development. Infected larvae are harvested at defined intervals, and infection progress is assessed by enumerating colony-forming units.
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Establishing a Fungal-Bacterial Co-culture for Biofilm Formation
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2026
Source: Miquel Guennoc, C., et al. New Method for Qualitative Multi-scale Analysis of Bacterial Biofilms on Filamentous Fungal Colonies Using Confocal and Electron Microscopy. J. Vis. Exp. (2017)This video demonstrates the preparation of a fungal culture on treated cellophane membranes to support colony formation and radial growth. It then shows the cultivation and preparation of soil bacterial cells for interaction assays. Finally, it illustrates how bacterial cells adhere to the fungal colony...
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Establishment of Rice Plant Leaf Infection through Fungal Inoculation via Wounding
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2025
This video demonstrates the establishment of rice plant leaf infection through wounding inoculation with Magnaporthe grisea mycelium. The fungal spore-derived germ tube penetrates the epidermal layer, resulting in tissue infection and lesions on the leaves. This method aids pathotype screening and improves plant resistance understanding for molecular breeding.
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Live-cell Video Microscopy of Fungal Pathogen Phagocytosis
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2013
We describe methods for live-cell video microscopy of Candida albicans phagocytosis by macrophages. These methods enable stage-specific analysis of macrophage migration, recognition, engulfment and phagosome maturation and reveal novel aspects of phagocytosis.
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Polarized tip growth concentrates extension at the hyphal apex, allowing a filament to advance while the older region remains established. Branching then distributes growth into surrounding soil, plant tissue, or other substrates. This combination gives fungal networks a way to occupy complex environments and reach separated sources of organic material, water, or mineral resources.
Secreted enzymes break complex organic materials into smaller, absorbable nutrients. Hyphae therefore do more than occupy a substrate: they chemically make resources available for fungal uptake and contribute to the transformation of organic matter. This activity links local growth to decomposition and helps explain why fungi are important participants in carbon and nutrient cycling.
In mycorrhizal associations, hyphal networks extend the plant-fungus interaction beyond the immediate plant surface. This relationship can improve plant access to water and minerals. Its environmental importance lies in connecting fungal growth with plant resource acquisition, making hyphae relevant to both belowground symbiosis and ecosystem nutrient movement.
The overview identifies extensive hyphal networks as influences on soil structure. Their relevance is therefore physical as well as biochemical: environmental scientists can consider fungal network development when examining how soil structure and ecosystem processes are connected. This role complements decomposition and plant interactions, broadening the environmental significance of fungal growth.
During decomposition, secreted enzymes act on complex organic materials, converting them into absorbable nutrients. At ecosystem scale, this activity connects fungal growth with the breakdown of organic matter and with carbon and nutrient cycling. Environmental scientists therefore consider hyphae important not only as fungal structures, but also as agents that help process material in terrestrial environments.
Their importance comes from several linked functions: spreading through soil and other substrates, breaking down organic materials, participating in plant associations, and influencing soil structure. Together, these roles connect microscopic fungal networks with decomposition, resource access, and ecosystem processes. This makes hyphae a useful focus for understanding how terrestrial systems function.