spore

Their framework reveals diverse functions -- such as excretion, venom spraying, prey hunting, spore dispersal, and plant guttation -- highlighting potential applications in soft robotics, additive manufacturing, and drug delivery.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024

For a mushroom to grow, a fungal spore has to set up shop on a surface and produce mycelia.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

It produces a type of cell called a spore, which is very resistant to heating.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023

IRVINE, Calif. — A drone flies over a peaceful Southern California marsh and unleashes a rain of larvae-killing bacterial spore pellets.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

We are told also that milky spore disease cannot be used on the periphery of the beetle’s range because it can be established only where a large grub population is already present in the soil.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

By extending high above the forest floor, its reproductive structures may be better positioned to catch moving air and distribute spores through dense vegetation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

"It smells horrible," he said, explaining the fungus attracts flies which help spread its spores.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

They probably fed on humus, decaying plant material, and fungal spores.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Mr. Boorman managed to injure himself gravely by whipping up dust storms on the Warner Bros. lot; fungal spores got into his lungs and he contracted a rare, sometimes debilitating disease called Valley Fever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Within its vegetative rods there are formed, along with spores, peculiar crystals composed of a protein substance highly toxic to certain insects, especially to the larvae of the mothlike lepidopteras.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

The Oita prefecture produces 40% of Japan’s shiitake mushrooms, spored in the trunks of sawtooth oaks.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2017

The pink spored species should also be regarded with suspicion.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

The genus Marasmius, belonging to the white spored Agarics, has the power of reviving under moisture after withering, so it may represent a genus that endures longest.

From Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners by Ellen M. Dallas

The simple spored rust first makes its appearance, and later the bilocular “mildew.”

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

Three types of spores may be said to prevail in the Tuberacei: the smooth spored, the warted or spinulose, and the areolate.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

Lack of rain combined with several days of hard frost in a row will prevent mushrooms from sporing in the fall.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

Some are just starting to bear fruiting bodies, or sporing bodies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

This discoloration happens as the mushroom passes through the sporing process, and can result in overwhelming bitter notes, which the drying process helps dissipate.

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2022

For the morning glory that spreads its petals at dawn, for geese flying south in autumn, for locusts swarming every 17 years and even for lowly slime molds sporing in daily cycles, timing is everything.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 13, 2014

Streaming steam—i. e., steam at 100°C.—destroys the vegetative forms of bacteria in from fifteen to twenty minutes, and the sporing forms in from one to two hours.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre