Mucor piriformis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Zygomycota
- Class
- Mucoromycetes
- Order
- Mucorales
- Family
- Mucoraceae
- Genus
- Mucor
- Species
- Mucor piriformis
- Scientific Name
- Mucor piriformis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mucor piriformis
Mucor piriformis is a plant pathogen that causes a soft rot of several fruits known as Mucor rot. Infection of its host fruits, such as apples and pears, takes place post-harvest. The fungi can also infect citrus fruits.
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Sibling Taxa
- Mucor abundans
- Mucor bainieri
- Mucor caninus
- Mucor circinelloides
- Mucor ctenidius
- Mucor echinatus
- Mucor exponens
- Mucor guilliermondii
- Mucor hiemalis
- Mucor juglandis
- Mucor laxorrhizus
- Mucor luteus
- Mucor mousanensis
- Mucor mucedo
- Mucor murinus
- Mucor piriformis
- Mucor plumbeus
- Mucor racemosus
- Mucor saturninus
- Mucor strictus
- Mucor taeniae
- Mucor tofus
- Mucor tuberculisporus
- Mucor variosporus