Achlya

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Achlya
Water mold Mizukabi colony.jpg
Mainly Achlya sp. Isolated from small stream around rice field. Incubated in room temperature on hemp seed
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Domain: Eukaryota
Clade: Diaphoretickes
Clade: SAR
Clade: Stramenopiles
Phylum: Oomycota
Order: Saprolegniales
Family: Saprolegniaceae
Genus: Achlya

Achlya is a genus of oomycete (water mold), in the family Saprolegniaceae. The genus includes several plant pathogens including Achlya conspicua and Achlya klebsiana . Unlike many other microorganisms, cell expansion is governed by changes in cell wall strength rather than changes in osmotic pressure. [1] The genome of Achlya hypogyna has been sequenced and can be accessed on public online databases, for example on the NCBI website (National Center for Biotechnology Information). [2]

Contents

The genus was first circumscribed in Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. vol.11 on page 514 in 1823 by Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck. [3] [4]

The type species is Achlya prolifera . [3]

The genus name of Achlya is named after Achlys, who in the Hesiodic Shield of Heracles , is one of the figures depicted on Heracles' shield, perhaps representing the personification of sorrow. [5]

Several Achyla spp. are pathogens of rice seedlings. [6]

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum; [7]

Former species; (all are Saprolegniaceae family) [7]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Saprolegniaceae</span> Family of single-celled organisms

Saprolegniaceae is a family of freshwater mould. James Ellis Humphrey (1861-1897), an American Mycologist did significant work on this family.

References

  1. Extension growth of the water mold Achlya: interplay of turgor and wall strength
  2. Misner, I.; Blouin, N.; Leonard, G.; Richards, T. A.; Lane, C. E. (2015). "The Secreted Proteins of Achlya hypogyna and Thraustotheca clavata Identify the Ancestral Oomycete Secretome and Reveal Gene Acquisitions by Horizontal Gene Transfer". Genome Biology and Evolution . 7 (1): 120–135. doi:10.1093/gbe/evu276. PMC   4316629 . PMID   25527045.
  3. 1 2 "Index Fungorum - Names Record: Achlya". www.indexfungorum.org. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  4. Nees von Esenbeck, C.G.D. (1823). Carus, J.V. (ed.). "Beitrag zur Geschichte der etc. Schimmelgattungen". Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 11: 514.
  5. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN   978-3-946292-41-8 . Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  6. Saichuk, Johnny, ed. (2014). "Rice Production Handbook" (PDF). Louisiana State University Agricultural Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-12-09.
  7. 1 2 "Achyla - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 24 December 2022.

Further reading

  • Tsunehiro, Aki; Yukimasa, Matsumoto; Tsotomu, Morinaga; Seiji, Kawamoto; Seiko, Shigeta; Kazuhisa, Ono; Osamu, Suzuki (February 1999). "Lipid composition of a newly isolated polyunsaturated fatty acid producing fungus, Achyla sp. ma-2801". Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering. 86 (5): 504–507. doi:10.1016/S0922-338X(98)80160-8.
  • O'Brien, Megan A.; Misner, Ian; Lane, Christopher E. (March 2014). "Mitochondrial Genome Sequences and Comparative Genomics of Achlya hypogyna and Thraustotheca clavata". Eukaryotic Microbiology. 61 (2): 146–154. doi:10.1111/jeu.12092. PMID   24252096. S2CID   23122050.