“…It caused different diseases in crop plants, varying from host to host, including seedling mortality, root rot, dampingoff, stalk rot, cottony leak, and blight. Moreover, new hosts and diseases caused by this destructive pathogen are continuously reported elsewhere (Shah et al, 2021(Shah et al, , 2022. In severe cases of damping-off and seedling rots, total crop loss can happen (Sharma et al, 2020).…”