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germ tube

noun

  1. botany a tube produced by a germinating spore, such as the pollen tube produced by a pollen grain
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Then it isolates itself from the germ-tube by a septum, and takes all the essential characteristics of the parent conidium.

The oospore on germination usually gives origin to a zoosporangium, but may form directly a germ tube which infects the host.

The germ tube is rather smaller at its base than further on.

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