The College of Science, University of Basrah discussed a Ph.D. thesis on the isolation and diagnosis of endophytic fungi and the estimation of their effect and secondary metabolism on some fungi pathogenic to wheat crops by the postgraduate student, Mr. Alaa Alaa El-Din.
The thesis reviewed the types of endophytic fungi in 20 plant species.
The thesis highlighted the ability of these fungi to improve the vital characteristics of plants and protect them from diseases, as endophytic fungi are a group of microscopic fungi that colonize and grow inside healthy plants in all or part of their life cycle without causing any disease or obvious harm to the host.
The thesis also reviewed that genetic analysis operations were able to record 30 new fungal species for the first time in Iraq.
