Basidio

  Un basidio, latín basidium (pl. en latín, basidia) es una estructura microscópica productora de esporos encontrado en los himenóforos de los cuerpos de fructificación de hongos basidiomycota.

Referencias

• Ingold, C.T. 1998. Ballistosporic basidia. The Mycologist 12:50-52.
• Ingold, C.T. 1991. A view of the active basidium in heterobasidiomycetes. Mycological Research 95:618-621.
• Money, N.P. 1998. More g’s than the Space Shuttle: ballistospore discharge. Mycologia 90:547-558.
• Pringle, A., S.N. Patek, M. Fischer, J. Stolze, and N.P. Money. 2005. The captured launch of a ballistospore. Mycologia 97:866-871.

Enlaces externos

• IMA Mycological Glossary: Basidum
• APSnet Illustrated Glossary of Plant Pathology: Basidum
• "Using a Microscope: Basidia and Cystidia" by Michael Kuo, MushroomExpert.com
• "Basidiomycota" by Koenraad Muylaert, in Dutch
• Demonstrating basidiospore discharge by John Webster. Mycological Society of America Lab Manual
• Spore discharge and dispersal in mushrooms by Heino Lepp, Australian National Botanic Gardens.