The product of sexual reproduction and the site of meiosis is same(oospore) in case of oomycetes,how it is possible? Does oospore will divide if yes,how?
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The oomycetes, also known as “water molds”, are a group of several hundred organisms that include some of the most devastating plant pathogens. The diseases they cause include seedling blights, damping-off, root rots, foliar blights and downy mildews. Some notable diseases are the late blight of potato, downy mildew of grape vine, sudden oak death, and root and stem rot of soybean. Because of their filamentous growth habit, nutrition by absorption, and reproduction via spores, oomycetes were long regarded by plant pathologists as lower fungi. However, as our understanding of evolutionary relationships has grown, it is now clear that this group of organisms is unrelated to the true fungi. Indeed, fungi appear more closely related to animals than to oomycetes, and oomycetes are more closely related to algae and to green plants