any organ, esp in fungi, in which asexual spores are produced
Derived forms
sporangial (spoˈrangial)
adjective
Word origin
C19: from New Latin, from sporo- + Greek angeion receptacle
Examples of 'sporangia' in a sentence
sporangia
Mean or consensus shape performed as the best shape descriptor of sporangia.
Ecaterina Fodor, Ovidiu Hâruţa, Ivan Milenković, Aneta Lyubenova, Giorgos Tziros,Nenad Keča, Slavtcho Slavov, Stephanos Diamandis, Kaloyan Kostov 2015, 'Geometric morphometry of Phytophthora plurivora sporangia', Annals of Forest Researchhttp://afrjournal.org/index.php/afr/article/view/411. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Sporangia are important organs for fern reproduction.
Zhen Lu, Qingyang Huang, Tong Zhang, Baozhong Hu, Ying Chang 2018, 'Global transcriptome analysis and characterization of Dryopteris fragrans (L.) Schottsporangium in different developmental stages', BMC Genomicshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-018-4843-2. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Sporangia started to emerge from the margins of potato tuber slice.
Touseef Hussain, Bir Pal Singh, Firoz Anwar, Sonica Tomar 2015, 'A simple method for diagnostic of Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary from potatoagricultural fields of potato', Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technologyhttp://www.agrifoodscience.com/index.php/TURJAF/article/view/325. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Disease outbreaks and risk periods coincided with a high sporangia survival probability (15−35%).
Modesto Olanya Ocen, Anwar Mohd, He Zhongqi, Larkin Robert Philip, Honeycutt CharlesWayne 2016, 'Survival potential of Phytophthora infestans sporangia in relation to environmentalfactors and late blight occurrence', Journal of Plant Protection Researchhttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jppr.2016.56.issue-1/jppr-2016-0011/jppr-2016-0011.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Starch dynamics presents a close relation to the development of sporangia, microspores and pollen grains.
João Marcelo Santos de Oliveira, Merielem Saldanha Martins, Mariane Paludette Dorneles,Cesar Carvalho de Freitas 2015, 'Starch distribution in anthers, microspores and pollen grains in Aechmea recurvata(Klotzsch.) L.B.Sm., Dyckia racinae L.B.Sm. and Tillandsia aeranthos (Loisel.) L.B.Sm.(Bromeliaceae)', Acta Botânica Brasílicahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-33062015000100103&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The number of spores per sporangium was counted from fresh fertile leaves with mature sporangia.
Dwi Sunarti Puspitasari, Tatik Chikmawati, Titien Ngatinem Praptosuwiryo 2015, 'Gametophyte Morphology and Development of Six Species of Pteris ( Pteridaceae )from Java Island Indonesia', Journal of Tropical Life Sciencehttp://www.jtrolis.ub.ac.id/index.php/jtrolis/article/view/299/pdf_13. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide also caused hyphae branching and deformation of some sporangia.
Hossein Najarpour, Fatemeh Hasanzadeh Davarani, Mohammad Moradi 2018, 'Efficacy of Calcium Salts on Controlling Phytophthora pistaciae, the Cause of Pistachio(Pistacia vera L.) Gummosis', Journal of Nutshttp://ijnrs.damghaniau.ac.ir/article_543141_77684a8eaf10deb3ce33c45706a84399.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These are present in the second plant and comprise bivalved sporangia.
Dianne Edwards, Bao-Yin Geng, Cheng-Sen Li 2016, 'New Plants from the Lower Devonian Pingyipu Group, Jiangyou County, Sichuan Province,China', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0163549. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Using protein antigens as markers, antigenic differentiation of progenies obtained from individual sporangia was examined.
Wiesław Prus-Głowacki, Roman Zieliński 2014, 'Serological estimation of the level of cross-fertilization in the monoecious liverwortPellia epiphylla n = 9', Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniaehttps://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/asbp/article/view/3008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)