Signs of infection often go unnoticed until reproductive stages of a plant's life cycle.

Recruitment means reaching a certain size or reproductive stage.

If the plant doesn't survive to its reproductive stage, the fungus will not get to reproduce either.

It is a separate life stage from the adult reproductive stage.

The teleomorph or sexual reproductive stage, of F. oxysporum is unknown.

Natality or birth rate, often recruitment, which means reaching a certain size or reproductive stage.

After L4, animals moult to the reproductive adult stage.

She's ready again for mating within hours of giving birth, and the young ones reach the reproductive stage after only three months.

An expert said that this was pointless because the male had passed its reproductive stage.

The leaves show a dimorphism according to reproductive stage.