“…L.) and identified as ascomycetous fungi, where the most common genera across three regions were Alternaria and Diaphorte followed by Fusarium . Diaphorte (anamorph = Phomopsis ) species are associated with several soybean diseases, where Diaporthe longicolla (anamorph = Phomopsis longicolla ) is the primarily cause of seed decay of soybeans and it is the major cause of poor‐quality seed (Darwish, Li, Matthews, & Alkharouf, ; Li, Hartman, & Boykin, ; Mengistu, Castlebury, Morel, Ray, & Smith, ; Santos, Vrandecic, Cosic, Duvnjak, & Phillips, ; Sun et al, ). Fusarium species are also associated with several plant diseases such as vascular wilts, root and stem rots among others (Pitt & Hocking, ).…”