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Rhizopus arrhizus

Fungal Diseases of Crops

Rhizopus arrhizus is a fungus of the family Mucoraceae, identified by sporangiophores that arise from the nodes where its rhizoids form and by a hemispherical columella. It is best known as the most common cause of mucormycosis in humans and occasionally infects other animals, but it is also a recognized plant and postharvest pathogen, causing disease on crops including almonds, apricots, beets, carrots, mangoes, maize, peaches, nectarines and sunflowers, and acting as a secondary rot organism on grapes already damaged by other pathogens. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Rhizopus arrhizus is a fungus of the family Mucoraceae, identified by sporangiophores that arise from the nodes where its rhizoids form and by a hemispherical columella.
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