Sexual spores of a species of Chaetomium
Justin Shaffer, University of Arizona department of ecology and evolutionary biology — These are sexual spores of a species of Chaetomium, a genus of relatively widespread Ascomycetous fungi, trapped in an air bubble on a glass slide viewed at 1,000X using a Nikon compound photomicroscope. This fungus was isolated from an otherwise healthy sentinel plant used to detect baseline levels of foliar fungi in a greenhouse setting.
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