Recently, researchers from Sichuan University and the University of British Columbia have found that botrytis fungi (Botrytis cinerea) cannot be cloned.
About Botrytis Fungi:
It is a widespread necrotrophic fungal pathogen.
Botrytis cinerea needs to obtain nutrients before it can penetrate a plant.
Dead or damaged plant tissue, such as old flower petals, can provide nutrients that the fungus needs.
Owing to this feeding source, the infection gains strength and spreads to healthy plant tissues. A brownish rot develops in newly infected tissues, which is how Botrytis cinerea deteriorates plants.
These fungi usually attack blossoms and fruit, but they can also cause rot and blight on buds, stems, leaves, roots, bulbs, and tubers.
The fungus typically targets fragile, wounded, aging, or dead plant parts.
It infects grapes, penetrates the skin, causes the berries to lose water by evaporation and shrivel up, and thus concentrates the sugars and flavours in them.
It was also found recently that this fungi exhibits an unusual idiosyncrasy.
In these fungi, no single nucleus contains a complete set of chromosomes. Instead, the chromosome set is distributed across two or more nuclei, and any one nucleus contains only a subset.
It requires warm temperatures, high humidity, and prolonged wetness which facilitate easy fungus inoculation.
Additionally, it can release organic acids, such as oxalic acid, which acidify the surrounding environment.
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