I REALLY need this answer, I can't find it anywhere.How do fungi control body process hormones? Do fungi have a nervous system or endocrine system?
Fungi have developed systems to sense and respond to specific signals produced by a host plant. Specifically, fungi living outside a plant perceive the presence of a hormone called indole 3-acetic acid (IAA) and may use it as a signal of a potential wound site. The scientists suspect that the fungi then switch from a benign yeast to a pathogenic form and infect the plant.
The ability of a fungus to perceive a plant hormone and differentiate into an invasive form has important implications for plant-pathogen interactions, according to Reeta Prusty, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral scientist in the lab of Gerald Fink, professor of biology at MIT and a Whitehead member.
The first question was really hard to find.
Fungi do not have nervous systems, so therefore fungi have endocrine systems.
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