Definition of Appressoria

1. Noun. (plural of appressorium) ¹

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Definition of Appressoria

1. appressorium [n] - See also: appressorium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Appressoria

apprenticehoods
apprenticelike
apprentices
apprenticeship
apprenticeships
apprenticing
apprentisage
apprentise
appress
appressed
appressed-fibrillose
appressed-fibrillose-striate
appressed-silky
appressed-squamulose
appresses
appressoria (current term)
appressorial
appressorium
apprest
appretiate
appretiated
appretiates
appretiating
apprisal
apprisals
apprise
apprised
appriser
apprisers
apprises

Literary usage of Appressoria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fungous Diseases of Plants, with Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"Under natural conditions the appressoria are formed as soon as the germ tube emerges from the spore. ... 46, Ie 2 Hasselbring, HH The appressoria of the ..."

2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1913)
"The appressoria, or chlamydospores, are also exceedingly variable in size and shape. As has been pointed out by Hasselbring (45) and others, ..."

3. Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University by Cornell University, New York State College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station (1914)
"Formation of appressoria.— There might remain the possibility of infection resulting from the germination of appressoria produced by the mycelium, ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"The bodies frequently found in nature and in cultures, which have been called by some chlamydospores and by others appressoria, show no specific characters. ..."

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