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Pochonia is a genus of soil moulds in the Clavicipitaceae. Its best-known species, P. chlamydosporia, lives in soil and around (and inside) plant roots, and infects the eggs of root-knot and cyst nematodes. It forms thick-walled, many-celled resting spores that let it persist in soil. It is studied as an alternative to chemical nematicides.
Conidiophores prostrate, often hard to distinguish from the mycelium, bearing phialides singly or in clusters; conidia small, one-celled, ellipsoidal to subglobose. P. chlamydosporia forms dictyochlamydospores (multicellular, thick-walled resting spores).
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