what are the uses of vaucheria
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Vaucheria is a genus of Xanthophyceae or yellow-green algae. It is one of only two genera in the family Vaucheriaceae.[1] The type species of the genus is Vaucheria disperma.[2][3]
Vaucheria
"Vaucheria" sp. collected from a paddy field, Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Vaucheria sp. collected from a paddy field, Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
(unranked):
SAR
Superphylum:
Heterokonta
Class:
Xanthophyceae
Order:
Heterosiphonales
Family:
Vaucheriaceae
Genus:
Vaucheria
A.P. de Candolle
Species
Vaucheria borealis
Vaucheria geminata
Vaucheria hercyniana
Vaucheria sessilis
Vaucheria terrestris
Vaucheria woroniniana
Vaucheria exhibits apical growth from the tip of filaments forming mats in either terrestrial or freshwater environments.[2][3] Its filaments form coenocytes with a large central vacuole pushing against the surrounding cytoplasm; the vacuole extends along the entire filament except for the growing tip.[3] The chloroplasts are located on the periphery of the cytoplasm with the nuclei aggregating toward the center near the vacuole.[3]
It has a diplontic life cycle,[4] previously thought to be haplontic.
Uses of vaucheria
Explanation:
1. Plant body is filiform, coenocytic and branched. It remains connected with the substratum by rhizoids.
2. Reserve food is fats and oils.
3. copy takes place by all the 3 suggests that : Vegetative, agamous and Sexual.
4. Vegetative copy takes place by fragmentation.
5. Agamogenesis takes place by compound multiflagellate zoospores i.e., synzoospores, aplanospores, hypnospores and akinetes