dikaryophyte
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From di- (“two”) + karyo- (“nucleus”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Noun
[edit]dikaryophyte (plural dikaryophytes)
- (biology) A dikaryotic mycelium.
- 1957, George William Fischer, Biology and Control of the Smut Fungi, page 331:
- It is well to remember, however, that this term, as applied to the smut fungi, is not strictly comparable with physiologic race as applied to the rusts and certain other fungi (Christensen and Rodenhiser, 1940), for the reason that the term has been used to designate not only pathogenically different dikaryophytes, but also culturally different haplonts.