B. cinerea conidial germination assay of the eluted fractions from a Sephadex 30 column used to fractionate latex constituents by size exclusion chromatography (SEC). SEC fractions 28–30 showed the highest activity for promoting conidial germination. Bars indicate the mean ± SEM obtained from four biological replicates, and letters indicate significant differences (p< 0.05; ANOVA test, Bonferroni’s test).