oospore
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The oospore on germination usually gives origin to a zoosporangium, but may form directly a germ tube which infects the host.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
After impregnation the fertilized oosphere immediately surrounds itself with a cell-wall and becomes the oospore which by a process of growth forms the embryo of the new plant.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
Reproduction from an oospore formed by the combination of two sexual cells.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
The oospore becomes an oosporangium, and from it at least a hundred germinating bodies are at length expelled.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
But the asexual generation derived from the oospore only for a short while remains in connection with the prothallium, which, of course, answers to the leafy portion of the moss.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
