spore

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

A new study led by Cornell University is the first to analyze plant spore dispersion at its source, where rain droplets shake flexible leaves to initially disperse pathogens.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 31, 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

I look at the page, where the life cycle of the mushroom from spore to fruiting body is taking shape, and I know this with absolute certainty.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

They also compared tree pollen with fern spores to determine whether the darkening might have been caused by biological differences between plant groups.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 22, 2026

Unkelbauer, who studied palynology -- the study of microscopic biological material found in sediment such as pollen and spores -- illustrates a growing labour market mismatch in Germany.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Infant botulism happens when swallowed spores from the bacterium infect a baby’s large intestine and make a toxin in it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026

The heath-star moss sends out spores far and wide and reproduces quickly, making it a successful invader.

From BBC ● May 30, 2026

“Then one day,” she said, “that stalk explodes and sends spores down onto the new colony. So new ants get taken over.”

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

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

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2017

In this respect it corresponds with the Armillaria among the white spored agarics.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

Most of the former are firmer, while the black spored specimens soon deliquesce.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

The dark or black spored Algæ, or Melanosporeæ or Fucoideæ.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various

The green spored Algæ, or Chlorosporeæ or Confervoideæ.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various

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