TL;DR: An investigation of the chemistry of acellular slime moulds revealed the presence of several types of metabolites, including Tetramic acid derivatives and physarochrome A, which are responsible for the pigmentation of plasmodia and naphthoquinones occur in fruiting bodies of Trichia and related genera.
Abstract: An investigation of the chemistry of acellular slime moulds revealed the presence of several types of metabolites. Tetramic acid derivatives and physarochrome A are responsible for the pigmentation of plasmodia, whereas naphthoquinones occur in fruiting bodies of Trichia and related genera. Two unusual pyrone derivatives have been isolated from plasmodia of Fuligo and Ceratiomyxa species. Arcyria denudata produces a whole family of biogenetically related bisindolylmaleimides, some of them possessing unusual structures and exhibiting phosphorescence phenomena.
TL;DR: Fatty acids of nine different slime moulds were analysed and polyunsaturated and methylene non-interrupted polyuns saturated fatty acids, for example, with 5, 9- and/or 5, 11-double bonds were identified by GC-mass spectrometry of their corresponding oxazolines.
TL;DR: This study provides the novel insight on understanding the biochemical and anatomical changes induced by white-rot hymenomycetes during biodegradation of oil palm wood blocks with an ultimate aim of reducing the Ganoderma inoculum under heavy BSR infection pressure in ecofriendly manner.
TL;DR: Strasburger studied Trichiafallax, and his main conclusions were that the nuclei divide karyokinetically just before spore formation, the capillitium is formed in vacuoles, and the spores are formed by simultaneous breaking up of the multinucleated mass along hyaline lines into uninucleated spores.
Abstract: OUR knowledge of such important vital phenomena of the Myxomycetes, as the formation of the spores and the capillitium, and nuclear and cell division, is still based quite largely on the data given in the single paper published by Strasburger (23) in I884. Strasburger studied Trichiafallax, and his main conclusions were that the nuclei divide karyokinetically just before spore formation, the capillitium is formed in vacuoles, and the spores are formed by simultaneous breaking up of the multinucleated mass along hyaline lines into uninucleated spores. Strasburger found his material on decaying stumps, and speaks of finding all stages in the development of the sporanges simultaneously. Lister mentions also that the sporangia require several days to mature after their first appearance. Strasburger describes the capillitium, which in Trichia fallax consists of long spirally-thickened threads tapering at each end, as arising in vacuoles of the protoplasm. These vacuoles become elongated, and the hollow tubular capillitium thread is formed in their interior. Strasburger describes the wall of the thread as being formed by the fusion of microsomes, which become aggregated in the membrane of the vacuole, and unite to form a thin, transparent pellicle. Further deposition of