"Mushroom Adventure" Bucket Hat(M)ushroom spore Plasmogamy is a Fusion of Hyphae. Spore cell reproduction begins with plasmogamy, the fusion of the two compatible mycelial strains. Each strain contributes its hyphal cells, and these cells undergo a fusion where the cytoplasm from each cell merges. However, during plasmogamy, the nuclei from the two different (M)ushroom strains do not immediately combine. Instead, the result is a dikaryotic cell, meaning that it contains two