BOTANY 394 Lecture Quiz #2 Spring, 1994 Name______________________

I. In the spaces provided, Compare (ie. give all the similarities) and contrast (ie. give all the differences) between brown rotted wood and white rotted wood as follows:

features to compare or contrast|
brown rots
white rots
cell wall material
moisture in wood and strength
growth on agar

(tannic acid e. g.)

reaction to syringaldezine and to guaiac
additional structures (e. g. gnarled hyphae, etc)

II. Provide an explanation of how you would determine that a stand of trees was exhibiting symptoms of a root disease?


III. For Phytophthora lateralis, provide the syndrome of the disease, a discussion of how a tree is killed, a discussion of the vectors of the disease, how the disease spread from Seattle, the features of the pathogen that allow it to overcome conditions that are not favorable for its growth, and the outlook for the host.


IV. On the back of this page and using only features of the sporocarp, provide a dichotomous key to the following twelve species of wood-rotting fungi: (You are NOT to use the host, ONLY the features of the sporocarp). Some of the features which will allow you to combine species and thus separate them in a key are: fruiting body attachment, annual vs. perennial, sporocarps, hymenophore type and color, color of the surface of the fungus.

Armillariella mellea

Ganoderma applanatum

Ganoderma oregonense

Heterobasidion annosum
Phellinus arctotstaphyli

Phellinus chrysoloma

Phellinus ferrguinosa

Phellinus pini

Phellinus weirii

Stereum hirstutum

Trametes versicolor

Tricaptum abietinum