The key players of T. melanosporum PCD, the yeast, and human homologs and the roles they have in PCD subroutines are reported in Fig. 5. It is evident from the Fig. 5 that T. melanosporum has the genetic tool-kit to perform PCD. Figure 3 shows the TUNEL assay positivity of T. melanosporum FBs at different developmental stages.Fig. 5 40 T. melanosporum PCD-related genes, with their human and yeast homologs, and the roles they have in programmed cell death.