Abstract

Growing fruit bodies of Agaricus bisporus and Amanita muscaria responded with regenerating white hyphae to cell and tissue injuries caused by intrapileal needle insertion and leucofuchsin injection. We point out reserve cells as a possible source of regenerating hyphae in the wound repair. Such reserve cells were not found in the partial veil and in the surface covering. Damage of the partial veil remained unrepaired and caused lamellar dysplasia. Hydrophilic, somatic tissues reacted immediately and strongly with leucofuchsin, whereas hyphae of the surface covering and partial veil showed a delayed and weak reaction. We explain this by the presence of an extracellular matrix, which consists of hydrophilic mucilaginous substances around tissue-forming hyphae. Transmission and scanning electron microscopical studies revealed that white hyphae were deprived of such matrix material. We conclude that for fungal tissue formation the hyphae have to be capable of producing a substantial amount of extracellular matrix material beyond the cell wall.

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