Ascogeny

Quick meaning: Ascogeny is a noun meaning (mycology) The development of ascospores inside an ascus.

Meaning

(mycology) The development of ascospores inside an ascus.

Example Sentences

Production of heterogeneous sclerotia may facilitate hybridization of strains during subsequent ascogeny.

A species in its entirety can be recognized from characters derived from ascogeny and/or mitospore production.

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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