Oomycete Biology - an alternative version

following on from the post Oomycete biology, and alternative version by David Brock:

Phytophthora is the beautiful wife of the Greek tycoon Genius. A bunch of speculators work with the Genius plotting to overthrow the Pathogens, the economically significant supporters of Phytophthora. She is in love with Oomycetes (better known as Walter Mitty). With his sister Oomycota he escapes her by taking a taxi to Phylum in the Kingdom of Stramenophila, leaving her in the Kingdom of Fungi where she listens to classical music. The Fungi fight off Oomycetes who forever after is called Pseudofungi by the people of Fungi.

In Act II Queen Stramenophila, from her cell high above the Chitin, distinguishes Oomycetes far off, separates from her husband Septae and, to defeat Mycelial (who has deployed nuclear weapons), sends her servant Sporangia to Oomycetes with the key to her cell.

Unfortunately, Flagella, the composer, died before he could finish the work though notes for Act III suggest there was the usual hanky panky you get in opera.

And by Clare - by way of an update on my cultures, and inspired by David to use as much mycological jargon as possible:

Phytophthora cactorum and P. citricola are homothallic (they don’t need a partner) and therefore are individually prolific in their production of sexual oospores invitro. P. cinnamomi has produced a few chalymidospores (asexual resting spores) but refuses to produce any sporangia invitro without an offering of soil extract. P. cambivora is beginning to produce the sporangia desired for the preparation of zoospore inoculum to infect my rhododendrons. The others are still in the hyphal state but I have made some three plug plates in the hope that this may excite some of the isolates to reproduce. If not then further action must be taken to induce the production of sporangia.