Figure 1.

(a) sorption behavior of dry‐harvested conidia formed at different a _w. The sorption isotherm data show the combined weight of a single conidium and the water it attracts as a function of RH. The arrow marks the direction of the a _w during conidiation. The red, dotted line gives the sorption isotherm that was measured for washed conidia that were formed at a _w = 0.91. (b) The weight of dry‐harvested conidia that equilibrated with RH = 0%, that is, the dry weight, as a function of the a _w at which they were formed. The star‐shaped data point represents the dry weight of a washed conidia formed at lower a _w