(n.) A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores.
Example Sentences:
(1) Upon segregation of the conidium from the phialide cell by conidial wall formation, 'trench-like' invaginations gradually appeared in the plasma membrane and a disorganized rodlet pattern was formed on the outer surface of the maturing conidial wall.
(2) Common volatile organic compounds (acetaldehyde, ethylacetate, ethanol, n-propanol, isobutanol, 2-methyl-butanol, 3-methyl butanol) tested singly and in combination inhibited the spore (conidium) germination of Helminthosporium oryzae, Cercospora personata, Cunnighamella blakesleeana, Colletotrichum capsici, and Alternaria solani.
(3) The germ tube wall is laid down at the site of emergence from the conidium.
(4) The parent conidium and later the proximal germ tube showed progressive vacuolation and the cytoplasm became largely occupied by electron-translucent material.
(5) E2 prevents mycelium-to-yeast or conidium-to-yeast conversion in vitro at close to physiologic concentrations.
(6) Conidiogenous cells in both species developed melanin only within the lowermost part of the lateral walls while the other cells of the conidium were uniformly melanized around the circumference of the cell; melanin in these cells being deposited within, at least, half the width of the cell wall.
(7) Carbohydrate cytochemistry helped define three stages (Stages I, II, and III) of wild-type conidium maturation on the basis of changes in the ultrastructure and composition of the conidium wall.
(8) The conidium was bound by a multilayered cell wall.
(9) A study of the conidiation stage showed that a phialide and an immature conidium began to form at the tip of all germ tubes 18 h after the temperature shift.
(10) The abundance of chlamydospores of F. solani was coupled with cessation of conidium formation increasing fernasan doses.
(11) Conidium formation in 5 species of pathogenic hyphomycetous fungi, Sporothrix schenckii, Exophiala salmonis, E.
(12) Scatchard analysis of the data revealed an average of 1,200 binding sites per conidium, and an apparent dissociation constant (Kd) of 2.2 x 10(-9) M was estimated.
(13) (i) the genera Microsporum, Trichophyton and Epidermophyton have holoblastic conidium-ontogeny; (ii) the investigated species exhibit polymeristematic development; (iii) delivery of the conidia occurs by means of a special detaching mechanism: consisting in autolysis of a detaching-cell or cells; (iv) the macroconidia have a primary septum; (v)chlamydospores including "gemmae" and "persistent-organs", strikingly similar to the macro- and microconidia as investigated in aqueous preparations, are also formed.
(14) A synchronous and homogeneous microcycle required a certain relationship between the number of inoculated conidia and the concentration of the organic acid in the medium; the optimum was at 0.08 nmol acid per conidium.
(15) The present study considers the morphology and experimental pathogenicity in relation to - the 'wild' strains; the possible circumstances enhancing pathogenicity in strains recovered from the soil; the rate and nature of the transformational steps in morphology, in human and experimental infections by established pathogenic strains; the elimination of pathogenic strains to the surface of clinical lesions, enabling a simplified diagnostic proof of infection; the rate and nature of the reversion of pathogenic forms to the 'wild' type when the constraints of the host are lessened; the plasticity of conidium-pigmentation as a sign of pathogenicity; the morphological conversions on moist wattle-wood as occur in the Gold Mines; and a note on the therapeutic value of itraconazole.
(16) Therefore, it was suggested that allergens responsible for the reaginic antibody formation derive from the conidium but not from the mycelium.
(17) Since transformation was readily accomplished under in vitro conditions favoring mycelial to yeast dimorphism, it is suggested that the conidium of B. dermatitidis represents the primary infective unit of this pathogenic fungus.
(18) On Papanicolaou-stained Millipore filters, the most common finding was a yellow-brown-pigmented muriform conidium with characteristic transverse and longitudinal septations.
(19) irradiation) were found to be over 99.5% in Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Serratia marcescens, Bacillus subtilis (vegetative cell) and Bacillus subtilis (spore) and 67% in Aspergillus niger (conidium).
(20) The changes of cytoplasmic components concomitant with conidium to mature mycelium growth of Aspergillus fumigatus strain Ag 507 were analysed by one- and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE; 2-DE).
Sporangium
Definition:
(n.) A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This "belt," usually first observed toward the center of the sporangium, developed without changing thickness or appearance over the surface of the forespore.
(2) It is proposed that simple, eucarpic, monocentric chytrids which discharge zoospores following dissolution of the sporangium wall evolved into multipapilliate species of Rhizophydium and 2 lines of evolution from these species are documented with examples.
(3) The cytoplasmic sporangium cleavage is brought about by the fusion of flagellar sheaths and cleavage vesicles.
(4) The mature resting sporangium (RS) wall of Coelomomyces dodgei (Chytridiomycetes; Blastocladiales) consists of three principal layers: (I) an outer pigmented layer (1.8-2.2 microns) that contains polysaccharide, (II) a middle electron translucent layer (1.3-1.6 microns) comparatively free of polysaccharide, and (III) an inner layer (125 nm) rich in polysaccharide that surrounds the meiospores.
(5) By inference, the sporulation division septum locus is distal to the ultimate normal cell division septum, i.e., proximal to the "old" pole of the B. megaterium sporangium.
(6) With the progress of spore encapsulation, the tyrocidine production migrated from the soluble fraction into the forespore, terminating with the separation of forespores from the sporangium membrane.
(7) Similarity of these bodies to sporangium-like structures is suggested.
(8) Using a transcriptional fusion of the spoIVC gene to the lacZ gene of Escherichia coli, we found that spoIVC expression was turned on at the third to fourth hour of sporulation (at about the developmental stage [IV] that its products are required in spore formation) and that this transcription was largely restricted to the mother cell chamber of the sporangium.
(9) However, a decrease in bacterial toxicity occurred with sporangium lysis.
(10) The transcriptional activity of the two genomes of the sporangium during spore formation was determined by pulse-labeling bacteria with 3H-uracil at different times of sporulation and preparing them for high resolution autoradiography.
(11) It was placed into group 3 of the genus Bacillus on the basis of its cellular morphology, the morphology of the sporangium, and the location of the spore within the cell.
(12) This suggests that the selective incorporation into the sporangium of either the "older" or "younger" chromosome of a vegetative cell does not occur in the course of spore formation.
(13) To investigate whether expression of spoIIM is required in the forespore compartment of the sporangium, we have constructed a new integrational vector, pKSV7, which contains temperature-sensitive replication functions derived from pE194ts.
(14) The electronmicroscopic examination of the colony revealed sporangium containing spores and characteristic dense body and plastids in the spores.
(15) The ability of Achlya to incorporate [1-14C]acetate into lipid was maximal at the time of sporangium formation, and glycerides were the principal component of total lipid to become 14C-labelled at all stages of the life cycle.
(16) The transcellular electric current apparently plays no role in sporangium formation or in spore cleavage.
(17) The peritumoural region of a squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue when examined with light and electron microscope showed nodular bodies in the submucosa with all the distinctive features of 'sporangium and 'spores' of rhinosporidiosis.
(18) A septum within each sporangium divides the forespore from the basal or parasporal portion of the cell.
(19) Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is a simple developmental system in which a single cell undergoes differentiation to two 'sister' cells, namely the prespore and the sporangium.
(20) Subsequently, the young cell elongates, becomes somewhat deformed, and then emerges through a narrow aperture in the inflexible coats of the spore, finally rupturing the sporangium.