A Method of Isolating the Four Spores from a Single Basidium in Schizophyllum Commune

1 September 1950

journal article
research article
Published by University of Chicago Press in Botanical Gazette

Vol. 112 (1) , 139-140
https://doi.org/10.1086/335638

Abstract

Sections of the gills are cut freehand, and basidiospores are allowed to develop on the sections in a moist chamber. The tetrads of spores are first detached and separated with the use of a microdissector and are finally isolated, after germination, under a dissecting microscope.