What is the meaning of Sclerotium?

noun

  • Form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants.
  • Compact usually dark-colored mass of hardened mycelium constituting a vegetative food-storage body in various true fungi; detaches when mature and can give rise to new growth. .
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