fruiting body

Noun

Meaning

an organ specialized for producing spores

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In the social pathway, they form a multicellular slug which then forms a fruiting body with asexually generated spores. Source: Internet

In basidiomycete taxonomy, hyphae that comprise the fruiting body can be identified as generative, skeletal, or binding hyphae. citation *Generative hyphae are relatively undifferentiated and can develop reproductive structures. Source: Internet

It has been found that a change in a single locus of a gene of the gilled mushroom Lentinus tigrinus causes it to have a closed fruiting body. Source: Internet

Schematic of a typical basidiocarp, the dipoid reproductive structure of a basidiomycete, showing fruiting body, hymenium and basidia. Source: Internet

These protists live as individual amoebae until starved, at which point they aggregate and form a multicellular fruiting body in which some cells sacrifice themselves to promote the survival of other cells in the fruiting body. Source: Internet

Seeds are ordinarily dispersed intact with the fruiting body, the cypsela. Source: Internet

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