Zygomycota, is a phylum of fungi which spoil strawberries. Zygomycota, or zygote fungi, is a phylum of fungi. The name comes from zygosporangia, where resistant spherical spores are formed during sexual reproduction.
Approximately 1060 species are known. They are mostly terrestrial in habitat, living in soil or on decaying plant or animal material. Some are parasites of plants, insects, and small animals, while others form symbiotic relationships with plants. Zygomycete hyphae may be coenocytic, forming septa only where gametes are formed or to wall off dead hyphae.
They are terrestrial fungi; they produce no motile cells and they reproduce sexually by the fusion of two, generally equal, gametangia which results in the formation of a zygospore. The thallus of the Zygomycetes is filamentous. The hyphae are generally aseptate, at least when young. Septa may be formed, however, as the mycelium ages. The characteristic component of the hyphal wall is chitin. The most familiar of these fungi is probably Rhizopus stolonifer, the common bread mold.