See Also: Neurospora(medicine)
neurospora crassa(medicine)

thyrsus (iou) and Neurospora (medicine)


thyrsus (iou)



thyrsus noun. . L16.
[Latin from Greek thursos stalk of a plant, Bacchic staff.]
Classical Antiquities. A staff or spear tipped with an ornament like a pine cone, carried by Bacchus and his followers. L16.
Botany. Any of several forms of inflorescence; spec. (a) a lax spike, as in some orchids; (b) a contracted kind of panicle, esp. one in which the individual branches form dichasia or monochasia, as in lilac and horse chestnut. E18.

Neurospora (medicine)


Neurospora


A fungus of the group Ascomycetes. It is haploid and grows as a mycelium. There are two mating types and fusion of nuclei of two opposite types leads to meiosis followed by mitosis. The resulting eight nuclei generate eight ascospores. These are arranged linearly in an ordered Fashion in a pod like ascus, so that the various products of meiotic division can be identified and isolated. Because of this, Neurospora crassa is one of the classic organisms for genetic research, studies on biochemical mutants led Beadle and Tatum to propose the seminal one gene one enzyme hypothesis.