Crop diseases caused by fungi and fungus-like organisms such as rusts, smuts, blights, mildews and rots, including the wheat and soybean rusts, the corn and wheat blights, powdery and downy mildew and the various rots and wilts caused by Fusarium species. Belongs here: any crop disease whose recognized causal agent is a fungus or an oomycete conventionally treated alongside fungal disease in plant pathology. Does not belong here: a crop disease caused by a bacterium or a virus, each grouped under its own heading below, even where the visible symptoms look similar.
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1. Wikipedia: Fungal plant pathogen
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Spores may be spread long distances by air or water, or they may be soil borne.
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