Basidiospore Print PDF
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Natural Habitat
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- Forest floors
- Lawns
- Plants (saprobes or pathogens depending on genus)
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Suitable Substrates in the Indoor Environment
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- Depends on genus
- Wood products
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Water Activity
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Mode of Dissemination
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- Forcible ejection
- Wind currents
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Allergenic Potential
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- Type I allergies (hay fever, asthma)
- Type III (hypersensitivity pneumonitis)
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Potential Opportunist or Pathogen
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Industrial Uses
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- Edible mushrooms are used in the food industry
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Potential Toxins Produced
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- Amanitins
- monomethyl-hydrazine
- muscarine
- ibotenic acid
- psilocybin.
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Other Comments
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- Basidiospores are the result of sexual reproduction and formed on a structure called the basidium. Basidiospores belong to the members of the Phylum Basidiomycota, which includes mushrooms, shelf fungi, rusts, and smuts
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