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n. - Sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus.

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  • Second, the wind plays a large part in local ascospore dissemination.
  • There is a winter spore stage, or technically, the ascospore stage, which comes, as
  • First, the prolific ascospore stage is very important in causing the spread of the blight, the spores at this stage being forcibly ejected from the pustules and borne...
  • With dry soils inhibiting germination of sclerotia, and the survival of apothecia, ascospore release should have been low.
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