A small conidium. See macroconidium . A life cycle in the rusts where one or more of the main spore stages, usually the aecial, is absent. A fungal disease of plants in which the mycelium and spores of the fungus are seen as a whitish growth on the host surface. A sequence of cellular events that culminates in the division of a eukaryotic nucleus into two genetically similar or identical nuclei whose ploidy is the same as that of the parent nucleus.
Mitosis occurs during asexual cell division. .
A uninucleate, haploid or diploid spore arising by mitosis. See Deuteromycotina . See phytoplasma . A downy fungal growth on a substratum, usually consisting of mycelium of a Hyphomycete or a Zygomycete. A proposed trivial name for any member of the class Mollicutes.