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Pheromone

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Food Biotechnology

A hormone-like substance that is secreted into the environment.

Susan Allender-Hagedorn and Charles Hagedorn — An Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary

A hormone-like substance that is secreted by an organism into the environment as a specific signal to another organism, usually of the same species.

UN Food and Agriculture Organization — Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture