11. Other fungi, such as ascomycetes , utilize both mitotic and meiotic spores. 12. I noticed that the fungi category includes subcategories such as Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes. 13. The fungus is an Ascomycete and can use conidia or ascospores to infect. 14. Most efficient wood degraders are saprotrophic ascomycetes and basidiomycetes. 15. The genome contains 21 chromosomes, that is the highest number reported among ascomycetes . 16. The terms basidiomycetes and ascomycetes are frequently used loosely to refer to Basidiomycota and Ascomycota. 17. Asexual reproduction of ascomycetes is very diverse from both structural and functional points of view. 18. ?Many ascomycetes are of commercial importance. 19. The cell walls of the ascomycetes almost always contain chitin and nuclei within a hypha. 20. "Colletotrichum kahawae " is an ascomycete that produces conidia from simple hyphae.