Plant Pathology Science

Shenavar  O. & Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa  R. 2015. Computerized interactive keys for identification of fungi. Plant Pathology Science 4(2):41-52

Accurate identification of fungi and fungus-like organisms is one of the most important steps for finding an approach to employ or control them. Nevertheless, this process is usually laborious and slow. Application of interactive keys is one of the ways to save the time and have an accurate identification of the species. An interactive key is a computer program in which the user enters morphological or molecular attributes of the specimen and the program compares them with the data of its database to find a match species with the highest similarity.  Such keys also allocate separate images and other data for any known species. In this paper some of the interactive identification keys and their function is discussed.