Molecular Microbiology Applied to the Study of Phytopathogenic Fungi
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Fungi is an extensive group of eukaryotic microorganisms, generally they are microscopic and usually filamentous. It is estimated that there are between 70,000 and 1.5 millions species of fungi, most of them are being discovering and describing (Agrios, 2005). Most of the known hundred thousand fungal species are strictly saprophytic, living on decomposing dead organic matter. About fifty species cause disease in human, and more than ten thousand species can cause disease in one (obligate parasite) or many kinds of plants (nonobligate parasites) (Fernández-Acero et al., 2007a).
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