TABLE 4.

Responses of mutant spores to germinants

Germinant(s)	Maximum rate of germination (% of initial OD lost per min)
	Parental strain	ino-1	ino-5	ala-1
0.3 mM inosine	8.0	<0.01	<0.01	7.8
0.3 mM inosine–0.01 mM l-alanine	41	0.7	0.1	39.8
1 mM l-alanine	2.4	0.6	0.8	0.8
1 mM l-alanine–0.01 mM inosine	26.7	10.0	11.1	17.2