ascogeny
English
Noun
ascogeny (uncountable)
- (mycology) The development of ascospores inside an ascus.
- 1992, Microbiology Abstracts, page 43:
- Production of heterogeneous sclerotia may facilitate hybridization of strains during subsequent ascogeny.
- 1994, Fifth International Mycological Congress, page 179:
- A species in its entirety can be recognized from characters derived from ascogeny and/or mitospore production.
- 2019, Zaid Hays & Danny Watson, Fungal Ecology, Diversity and Metabolites, page 57:
- A discarded hypothesis held that a second karyogamy event occurred in the ascogonium prior to ascogeny, resulting in a tetraploid nucleus which divided into four diploid nuclei by meiosis and then into eight haploid nuclei by a supposed process called brachymeiosis, but this hypothesis was disproven in the 1950s.
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