A basidiospore is a reproductive spore produced by basidiomycete fungi, a grouping that includes mushrooms, shelf fungi, rusts, and smuts. Basidiospores...

secondary mycelia. A basidium usually bears four sexual spores called basidiospores. Occasionally the number may be two or even eight. Each reproductive...

external meiospores (usually four). These specialized spores are called basidiospores. However, some Basidiomycota are obligate asexual reproducers. Basidiomycota...

differentiated from other polypores because they have a double-walled basidiospore. They may be called shelf mushrooms or bracket fungi. Ganoderma are characterized...

rhinitis. In 1952 basidiospores were described as being possible airborne allergens and were linked to asthma in 1969. Basidiospores are the dominant airborne...

infect. However, infection of living host tissue through basidiospores is quite rare. Two basidiospores must germinate and fuse to be viable and produce mycelium...

Typical reproductive structure of a basidiomycete, including the basidiospore and basidium...

structure. Most are basidiomycetes and gilled. Their spores, called basidiospores, are produced on the gills and fall in a fine rain of powder from under...

formed in which club-like structures known as basidia generate haploid basidiospores after karyogamy and meiosis. The most commonly known basidiocarps are...

bluish-grey. Coprinopsis radiata has been used as a model organism to study basidiospore formation. Coprinopsis radiata is successfully cultured on horse dung...

pileiocystidia and caulocystidia, smooth round-headed cheilocystidia, inamyloid basidiospores, and 2-spored basidia. "Mycena subcyanocephala". iNaturalist. Retrieved...

(mitospores or conidia) and sexual spores (meiospores or ascospores/basidiospores). Conidia can be produced more readily and with less energy than ascospores...

Grygansky, Andriy P. (2000). "Stimulation with Low-Intensity Laser Light of Basidiospore Germination and Growth of Monokaryotic Isolates in the Medicinal Mushroom...

PMC 23483. PMID 9326623. Horton TR (2006). "The number of nuclei in basidiospores of 63 species of ectomycorrhizal Homobasidiomycetes". Primary. Mycologia...

karyogamy occurs before meiosis and then the formation of basidiospores. The basidiospores then infect the host plant. Armillaria tabescens is found to...

cylindrical to subcylindrical stipe and white to pale yellowish gills. The basidiospores are ellipsoid and ornamented with amyloid warts. Melanoleuca is considered...

Peridiole structure Peridioles contain glebal tissue, basidia, and basidiospores, surrounded by a hardened wall. They are commonly lenticular in shape...

amanitaceae.org. Li, De-Wei (November 2005). "Release and dispersal of basidiospores from Amanita muscaria var. Alba and their infiltration into a residence"...

Publishing. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-919433-47-2. Pegler DN, Young TWK (1973). "Basidiospore form in the British Leucopaxillae". Kew Bulletin. 28 (3): 365–79. doi:10...

plant directly; instead they germinate to produce basidia and basidiospores. IV-Basidiospores from Teliospores. These windborne haploid spores often infect...

Slim projecting part of the basidium of some species of fungi that carries the basidiospore....

four haploid nuclei migrate into four, usually external cells called basidiospores. Sexual reproduction has been proposed to have evolved in both the Ascomycota...

"Smooth" basidiospores of G. sessile at 100x magnification...

(gilled mushrooms), though a minority are gasteroid. All have salmon-pink basidiospores which colour the gills at maturity and are angular (polyhedral) under...

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teliospores from which laterally septate basidia emerge, producing sessile basidiospores. Species occur worldwide and can be isolated from air, water, soil,...

The fruiting bodies of the fungus produce abundant basidocarps and basidiospores which are generally dispersed in air currents and germinate upon contact...

does not autodigest its fruiting bodies. It is characterized by rough basidiospores and lamellar edges that exude beads of clear liquid when in prime condition...

Dacrymyces by its comparatively large (18–23 by 6.5–8 μm), 7-septate basidiospores. Tremella mesenterica and Naematelia aurantia are macroscopically identical...

similar to raw peeled potatoes. The spore print is pinkish brown. The basidiospores are ellipsoid and measure 12–16 by 8–9.5 μm. Basidia are 20–35 by 7–15 μm...