| Gigasporaceae | |
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| Gigaspora margarita | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Glomeromycota |
| Class: | Glomeromycetes |
| Order: | Diversisporales |
| Family: | Gigasporaceae J.B. Morton & Benny |
| Type genus | |
| Gigaspora Gerd. & Trappe
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| Genera[2] | |
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The Gigasporaceae are a family of fungi in the order Diversisporales. Species in this family are widespread in distribution, and form arbuscular mycorrhiza in roots.[3]
A species under Gigasporaceae is Gigaspora gigantea. The spores of G. gigantea, found in specific sand dunes, commence in a healthy state of newly formed spores to dead and blackened in seven months through four identifiable steps: they begin as healthy greenish-yellow spores, turn into yellow with brown spots, then reddish-orange-brown, and ultimately dead. A cause of the symptoms of death in spores are soil organisms such as bacteria, protists, and microfauna.[4]
- ^ The genus Scutellospora is not monophyletic. Several species have been proposed to belong to Cetraspora, Dentiscutata, or Quatunica. See Oehl F, de Souza FA, Sieverding E. 2008. Revision of Scutellospora and description of five new genera and three new families in the arbuscular mycorrhiza-forming Glomeromycetes. Mycotaxon 106: 311–360.
- ^ International Culture Collection of Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Archived 2012-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cannon PF, Kirk PM (2007). Fungal Families of the World (1st ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-85199-827-5.
- ^ Lee, Pau-Ju; Koske, R.E. (1994). "Gigaspora gigantea: seasonal abundance and ageing of spores in a sand dune". Mycological Research. 98 (4): 453–457. doi:10.1016/S0953-7562(09)81203-3.