| 1. | Plasmogamy between compatible individuals leads to delayed karyogamy leading to establishment of a dikaryon.
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| 2. | The dikaryon can also simultaneously fertilize again by donating a nucleus to another homokaryon.
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| 3. | The croziers help maintain a brief dikaryon.
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| 4. | The paired dikaryon in the basidium fuse ( i . e . karyogamy takes place ).
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| 5. | For infection to occur, two sporida from different mating types must come together and form a dikaryon.
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| 6. | This dikaryon then produces hyphae that penetrate the bud scales of the sugarcane plant and infect the meristematic tissue.
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| 7. | The dikaryon is long lasting but ultimately gives rise to either fruitbodies with basidia or directly to basidia without fruitbodies.
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| 8. | The compatible nuclei of the dikaryon merge forming a diploid nucleus that then undergoes meiosis and ultimately internal ascospore formation.
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| 9. | If more than one individual dikaryon is present, lines of intraspecific antagonism form as the two individual mycelia interact and repel each other.
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| 10. | Each nucleus divides resulting in the formation of a pair of compatible nuclei, i . e . a dikaryon, in the ascus.
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