vesicle
thin sac in which zoospores are differentiated and released; the bulbous head terminating the conidiophores of Aspergillus; structure formed by endomycorrhizal fungi within living cells of the root
(left: zoospores of Pythium undulatum form in a vesicle just outside the sporangium; center: SEM of Aspergillus flavus; right: endomycorrhizal vesicles in alfalfa root stained with trypan blue)
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