The vast majority of fungi reproduce sexually and use secreted pheromones to signal to each other. A study now shows that these signalling molecules in the fungal plant pathogen Fusarium oxysporum activate a density-dependent autocrine signal that controls asexual spore germination.
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Martin, S.G. Quorum sensing with pheromones. Nat Microbiol 4, 1430–1431 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0538-y
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