ABSTRACT
Ascomycota is commonly called as “Sac fungi, since the sexual spores are produced in sac-like body called ascus. Sometimes refered as cup fungi, earth tongues, cramp balls, dung buttons, truffles or moulds. Asexual reproduction is by spores called conidia borne on simple or complex conidiophores. Yeasts reproduce asexually by budding or fission. Characteristically, sexual reproduction in ascomycetes results in eight meiotically formed sexual spores called ascospores borne in a sac-like ascus. Asexual reproduction is the dominant form of propagation in the Ascomycota, and is responsible for the rapid spread of these fungi into new areas. Ascus develops from a specialized hypha called, ascogenous hypha, which in turn develops from an ascogonium.
