How To Use conidiophore In A Sentence
- Small round conidia were attached to short simple conidiophores, resembling lollipops.
- Microscopically, the fungus produces solitary oval to dumbbell-shaped conidia on short, unbranched conidiophores lateral to septate hyphae.
- Wild-type conidiophores are radially symmetrical and consist of a stalk with a single vesicle from which multiple primary sterigmata bud.
- Conidiophores terminally differentiate at the tips to yield multinucleated asexual spores, termed conidia.
- Although the first cells from hyphae looked like conidiophores, they were slenderer than conidiophores of the wild type.
- These mutants lacked normal conidiophores and phialides and formed rod-shaped, catenated cells directly from hyphae.
- For observation of conidiophore structure, coverslips with aerial hyphae and conidiophores attached were dipped into 100% ethanol, mounted on slides, and observed microscopically.
- At the same time the mould, which comprises spore-bearing growths called conidiophores, appears on the surface.
- The asexual phase in the life cycle of this fungus involves the formation of multicellular structures called conidiophores that produce chains of uninucleate spores called conidia.
- The positive samples contained intact, determinate conidiophores, which varied in color between colorless and brown, and swollen phialides (colorless to brown) with 1-celled dark olivaceous spores were present.
