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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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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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Filamentous Fungi
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Dr. Ian Pepper and Dr. Charles Gerba - The University of Arizona Demonstrating Author: Bradley Schmitz Fungi are heterotrophic eukaryotic organisms, and with the exception of yeasts, are aerobic. They are abundant in surface soils and are important for their role in nutrient cycling and the decomposition of organic matter and organic contaminants. White rot fungi (phanerochaete chryosporium) for example, (Figure 1) are known to degrade aromatics. Figure 1. White rot on...
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Fluorescence Time-Lapse Imaging of the Streptomyces venezuelae Life Cycle
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2025
Source: Schlimpert, S. et al. Fluorescence Time-lapse Imaging of the Complete S. venezuelae Life Cycle Using a Microfluidic Device. J. Vis. Exp. (2016)This video demonstrates fluorescence time-lapse imaging of the complete life cycle of the bacteria Streptomyces venezuelae using a microfluidic device to visualize germination, hyphal growth, and sporulation in real time.
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Vesicles deliver membrane and cell-wall materials to the hyphal apex, allowing growth to remain concentrated at the tip rather than distributed uniformly along the filament. This polarized delivery supports directional expansion through substrates such as soil, plant tissue, and food. Examining apex-directed trafficking therefore helps connect cellular transport with fungal growth patterns.
Branching increases the spatial reach of a fungal growth system, while continued tip extension lets it occupy new regions of a substrate. Together, these features help explain how fungi spread through soil, plant tissue, food, and other materials. Comparing branching with simple linear extension can reveal how growth architecture supports colonization.
Septa, or cross-walls, organize many hyphae into compartments without eliminating cytoplasmic continuity. That arrangement combines structural organization with continuity within the filament, allowing researchers to study how fungal cells are partitioned while the growing structure remains connected. Because septa occur in many, but not all, species, they also provide a basis for comparing fungal growth patterns.
Extracellular enzymes act outside the fungal structure, breaking complex materials into substances that can be absorbed after release. This division between external digestion and nutrient uptake explains how growth through a substrate is linked to resource acquisition. It is especially relevant when analyzing fungal decomposition in soil, food, or plant-associated environments.
Observing extension, branching, and organization can help relate fungal growth to two contrasting plant outcomes: symbioses, in which fungi associate with plants, and disease. This makes hyphal growth a useful cellular perspective for investigating how fungal structures occupy plant tissue and how those interactions fit into broader biology.
Their growth and activity connect basic fungal biology with applied research. Hyphae are relevant to investigations of antibiotics, industrial enzymes, and biomaterials, while their expansion and decomposition functions support fungal ecology studies. Researchers can therefore use hyphal biology to link cellular structure and growth with products, environmental processes, and organismal interactions.