NOUN
- a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi
How To Use oospore In A Sentence
- This suggests that infected host cells were negatively selected by the parasite zoospores under these conditions.
- There was no correlation between zoospore and sporangium yeild in different medium.
- The biological characteristics of growth rate and colony morphology of single–zoospore isolates were studied.
- Rejuvenescence gives rise to a swarm-spore or zoospore. Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
- Of an estimated 45,000 oospores spread onto germination plates from each isolation, 500 germinated.
- The progeny were derived from oospores generated in infected leaves (in vivo) and were recovered from sporulating lesions formed on leaves that were floated on water containing soil with oospores.
- It is an interesting fact that this form of the zoospore corresponds with those of the related Peronosporacece. and with those of some of the Aacylistacece. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
- For example, copper ions (from copper oxychloride) are toxic to the zoospores of grapevine downy mildew, thus preventing infection.
- It is true one may argue that the zoospores of certain cryptogamia exhibit similar movements; but do not these zoospores possess as much of an animal nature as do the spermatozoa? The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
- From the union of the protoplasm of the last two, there results in each case a single oospore. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society