Plasmodiophorid Sporogenic Stages

Cruciform divisions occur in early stages of sporogenic development, and noncruciform divisions ( meiosis ) occur in later stages. Sporogenic plasmodia will cleave and produce resting spores , which may be aggregated in sporosori. Some literature refers to the resting spores as cysts, and the sporogenic plasmodia as cystogenous plasmodia. Karling's 1981 article ( Woronina leptolegniae n. sp., a plasmodiophorid parasite of Leptolegnia . Nova Hedwigia 35: 17-24) discussed the rationale for using resting spore and sporogenic in place of cyst and cystogenous respectively.

Images of Young Sporogenic Plasmodia

• Sorodiscus sporogenic plasmodium, TEMG
• Sorosphaera young plasmodium, TEMG
• Another Sorosphaera young sporogenic plasmodium, TEMG
• Sorosphaera interphase nucleus, TEMG
• Sorosphaera sporogenic plasmodium with cruciform divisions, TEMG
• Spongospora comparison of sporogenic plasmodia, LMG
• Spongospora young sporogenic plasmodium, TEMG
• Tetramyxa sporogenic plasmodia, LMG
• Plasmodiophora sporogenic plasmodia, TEMG