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WE found that the washed conidia of Glomerella cingulata (Stoneman) Spaulding and Schrenk readily germinated in redistilled water, but only when present in low concentrations1. Reduced germination of spores as a result of crowding is known in several fungi as “self-inhibition”. We showed that diffusible inhibitors were present in the conidia; a basic fraction was more toxic to the conidia of G. cingulata than to the endospores of Bacillus subtilis by a Petri plate assay method2.
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LINGAPPA, B., LINGAPPA, Y. Alkaloids as Self-inhibitors of Fungi. Nature 214, 516–517 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214516a0
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