ascogeny

English

Noun

ascogeny (uncountable)

1. (mycology) The development of ascospores inside an ascus.
   • 1992, Microbiology Abstracts, page 43:

     Production of heterogeneous sclerotia may facilitate hybridization of strains during subsequent ascogeny.

   • 1994, Fifth International Mycological Congress, page 179:

     A species in its entirety can be recognized from characters derived from ascogeny and/or mitospore production.

   • 2019, Zaid Hays, Danny Watson, Fungal Ecology, Diversity and Metabolites, page 57:

     A discarded hypothesis held that a second karyogamy event occurred in the ascogonium prior to ascogeny, resulting in a tetraploid nucleus which divided into four diploid nuclei by meiosis and then into eight haploid nuclei by a supposed process called brachymeiosis, but this hypothesis was disproven in the 1950s.