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SPORES single in the soil; develop inside the neck of a sporiferous saccule; golden yellow (5B8) to brownish orange (7C7); globose to subglobose; (95-)135(-175) µm diam.
SUBCELLULAR STRUCTURE OF SPORES composed of a spore wall and one inner germinal wall.
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Tooth-shaped outgrowths of swl3
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Layer 1, forming the spore surface, evanescent, hyaline, (1.5-)2.5(-4.5) µm thick, continuous with the wall of the sporiferous saccule, absent or highly sloughed in mature and older spores, staining crayfish red (9B8) to cerise (12C8) in Melzer's reagent.
Layer 2 semipermanent, smooth, 2.8-6.0 µm thick, slowly degrades with age.
Layer 3 laminate, permanent, golden yellow (5B8) to brownish orange (7C7); (1,5-)2,5(-4,5) µm thick, ornamented with tooth-shaped outgrowths, 1.8-3.8 x 1.0-3.0 µm, with a central depression in the upper surface.
Layer 4 semiflexible, smooth, golden yellow (5B8) to brownish orange (7C7); ca. 0.5 µm thick, always tightly adherent to the lower surface of layer 3 and, hence, difficult to observe.
Germinal wall consists of three hyaline layers (gwl1-3).
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Layer 1 flexible, <0.5 µm thick, usually tightly adherent to layer 2, and, hence, very difficult to see.Layer 2 flexible, coriaceous, (5.5-)7.8(-10.0) µm thick.
Layer 3 flexible, ca. 0.5 µm thick, usually difficult to separate from layer 2.
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CICATRIX. Two scars showing the region of contact between the spore and the saccule neck are present. A scar proximal to the saccule is a slightly depressed area, circular, 13.5-27.0 µm diam, to ellipsoidal, 13.5-23.0 x 16.0-27.0 µm, when seen in a plane view. A scar distal to the saccule is circular, 11.0-14.5 µm diam when observed in a plane view.
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Wall of sporiferous saccule composed of three layers continuous with layers 1-3 of the spore wall.
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Layers 1 and 2 hyaline; layer 3 pale orange (5A3). Layer 1 stains crayfish red (9B8) to cerise (12C8) in Melzer's reagent. Layer 3 usually forms a funnel-shaped stalk projecting inward the sporiferous saccule. It is present only in the part of the saccule wall neighbouring with the spore wall.
GERMINATION. Not observed.
MYCORRHIZAE. Many attempts to establish mycorrhizae of E. infrequens in one-species cultures failed.
The only report of E. infrequens mycorrhizae established in a one-species culture probably is that of Sieverding and Toro (1986). According to these authors, E. infrequens formed typical vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae in roots of Pueraria phaseoloides Benth.
DISTRIBUTION. Entrophospora infrequens has originally been described as Gl. infrequens I.R. Hall from spores found in New Zealand (Hall 1977). Ames and Schneider (1979) concluded that Gl. infrequens was incompletely described and based on spores wet sieved from a celery field soil of California transferred this fungus to a newly established genus, Entrophospora R.N. Ames & R.W. Schneid.
In Poland, E. infrequens has been found in different both cultivated soils and those with natural vegetation (Błaszkowski 1993a, b; Iwaniuk and Błaszkowski 2004). However, this fungus occurred rarely and in low abundances.
As literature data and the observations of the author of this website indicate, E. infrequens has a worldwide distribution. It has been encountered in, e. g., Canada (Dalpé 1989), U.S.A. (Ames and Schneider 1979; Bloss and Walker 1987; Halvorson and Koske 1987; Hetrick and Bloom 1983; Koske and Halvorson 1989; Pfleger and Steward 1989; Schenck and Smith 1982; Stahl and Christensen 1982), Mexico (Sieverding and Oehl 2006), Colombia (Sieverding and Toro 1986), Bolivia (Sieverding and Oehl 2006), Brazil (Maia and Trufem 1990), Finland (Vestberg 1995), France, Switzerland and Germany (Oehl et al. 2003, 2004, 2005), Namibia (Uhlmann et al. 2004), Benin (Sieverding and Oehl 2006), Turkey (Błaszkowski, pers. observ.), India (Sridhar and Beena 2001), New Zealand (Hall 1977), and Australia (Hall and Abbott 1984).
NOTES. Entrophospora infrequens, the type species of the genus Entrophospora, has originally erroneously been described as Glomus infrequens from incomplete spores with a short stalk resembling a subtending hypha of glomoid spores (Hall 1977). Ames and Schneider (1979) found identical spores, but formed inside the neck of a sporiferous saccule similar to the sporiferous saccules of Acaulospora spp. (Gerdemann and Trappe 1974). Consequently, they transferred this fungus to the newly erected genus Entrophospora in the family Endogonaceae Paoletti of the order Endogonales Moreau. Morton and Benny (1990) accommodated the genus Entrophospora in the family Acaulosporaceae. Walker and Schüßler (2004) included the Acaulosporaceae with the genera Acaulospora and Entrophospora in the new order Diversisporales. Recently, Sieverding and Oehl (2006) established the family Entrophosporaceae with the type genus Entrophospora, remaining in this genus only E. baltica and E. infrequens sensu Sieverding and Oehl (2006). Entrophospora colombiana and E. kentinensis, two other species classified within the genus Entrophospora sensu Ames and Schneider (1979), were transferred to the newly established genus Kuklospora and renamed K. colombiana and K. kentinensis.
The main reasons of the separation of Entrophospora spp. from the family Acaulosporaceae were (1) the formation of 2-walled spores by Entrophospora spp., and 3-walled ones by fungi of the Acaulosporaceae, (2) the presence of a relatively thick, coriaceous sensu Walker (1986), layer in the inner germinal wall of spores of Entrophospora spp. and its lack in any inner germinal wall of spores of the genera Acaulospora and Kuklospora, and (3) the production of an outer beaded layer in the innermost germinal wall of spores of most known species of the Acaulosporaceae compared with the lack of such a layer in the inner germinal wall of E. baltica and E. infrequens spores. Additionally, all available results of molecular analyses of members of the Acaulosporaceae and E. infrequens have indicated no relationship between these fungi (Sieverding and Oehl 2006).
Entrophospora infrequens and E. baltica are easy to distinguish. While the ornamentation of spores of the former fungus consists of tooth-shaped outgrowths, that of the former species forms small warts (Błaszkowski et al. 1998). Additionally, spores of E. baltica are surrounded with a hyphal mantle that is lacking in spores of E. infrequens.
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