Anamorphic
In mycology, an anamorphic or minor fruit form is an asexual stage of development of a fungus . In such a stage of development plant fungi either by cell division or budding continues or reproduction and distribution stages, the asexual (without sexual process , asexually formed) and as asexual spores ( mitospores be referred to).
The contrast to this is a teleomorph or main fruit form , namely a developmental stage of a fungus in which developmental stages are formed as a result of a sexual process, which are called meiospores for reproduction . If a fungus has both developmental stages, anamorphic and teleomorphic, then all of its developmental stages are referred to as holomorphs and the fungus as pleomorphic .
First and foremost, anamorphs occur in imperfect fungi ( Fungi imperfecti , Deuteromycetes ), of which often no meiosporangia stage exists, which means that they reproduce exclusively through asexually formed conidia . Most of the time, the anamorphs belong to the tubular , more rarely to the mushroom or other mushroom groups.
With modern molecular biological and genetic methods, the teleomorphs belonging to anamorphs can now be determined relatively often.
Occasionally there are several secondary crop forms to a holomorph, these are then referred to as synanamorphs .