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Fungi are responsible for approximately two third of the infectious plant diseases there are many plant diseases caused by fungi like mildew smuts rusts etc know more about them through this article fungi belong to a large and diverse group of microorganisms. Diseases like powdery mildew cercospora leaf spot take all root rot and anthracnose are caused by different fungal species however the majority of plant diseases are caused by two main groups of fungus those from phylum ascomycota and phylum basidiomycota fungi in ascomycota are commonly called sac fungi and include these species. Some of the worlds great famines and human suffering can be blamed on plant disease causing fungi and flos wheat crops of the middle ages were commonly destroyed when the grains became infected with a dark dusty powder now known to be the spores of the fungus called bunt or stinking smut tilletia spp. The fungi which cause plant disease by stevens frank lincoln 1871 publication date 1913 topics plant diseases fungi publisher new york the macmillan company collection americana digitizing sponsor google book from the collections of university of michigan language english