Table 1.

Relevant phytopathogenic fungi genera and their hosts.

Fungal Genera	Host Plant	References
Alternaria	Fruit plants, such as tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) and apple (Malus domestica)	[49,57,58,59]
Aspergillus	Seeds, nuts, and fruits of a wide range of plant species	[57,58,60,61,62]
Botrytis	Wide range of plant hosts	[57,63,64]
Colletotrichum	Mediterranean plants and trees (fruits), tropical species and vegetables	[42,47,65,66,67,68,69]
Fusarium	The broad range of hosts include mono- and dicotyledons in greenhouses, cereals crops, and other plant species, such as tomato, upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum), banana (Musa sp.), and plants belonging to the Brassicaceae family	[42,52,57,63,64,70,71,72,73,74,75]
Penicillium	Fruits and vegetables	[57,58,76,77]
Puccinia	Wheat crops (Triticum aestivum)	[42,47,64,78]
Rhizoctonia	Root pathogen of a wide range of hosts, including tomato, soybean (Glycine max), pepper (Capsicum annuum), eggplant (Solanum melongena), watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), upland cotton, sunflower (Helianthus annuus), rice (Oryza sativa), and potato (Solanum tuberosum)	[32,57,71,72,73,74,75,79,80]
Rhizopus	Brassicaceae plants	[57,70]