sporulate

IPA: spˈɔrʌɫeɪt

Examples of "sporulate" in Sentences

The fungal mycelium invades the rice and then starts to sporulate.
At room temperature, it takes one and a half day for the oocysts to sporulate.
Fungus diseases overwinter on fallen leaves and sporulate to reinfect their plant hosts in spring.
To sporulate is to create an oval body that has all the basic ingredients of the vegetative bacterium.
I am soon to divide and sporulate; that is the system by which I reproduce, and I have little control over it.
The life-history of all of these is very similar, the principal difference being in the length of time it takes them to sporulate.
Anthrax, as found naturally in the wild, does not compete well with putrefaction bacteria, so after killing an animal, its real success lies in its ability to sporulate quickly and remain in the soil for long periods of time.
Another thing that indicated that this sexual generation must take place outside the body of the vertebrate host was the fact that the investigators found that the parasites in certain of the cells did not sporulate as did the others.