%0 Book Section %A Kishore Babu, B %A Kiran Babu, T %A Sharma, R %B Analyzing Microbes: Manual of Molecular Biology Techniques %C New York %D 2013 %E Arora, D K %E Das, S %E Mesapogu, S %F icrisat:7586 %I Springer Heidelberg %P 93-97 %T Molecular Identification of Microbes: I. Macrophomina Phaseolina %U http://oar.icrisat.org/7586/ %X This chapter will help us in the isolation of Macrophomina phaseolina from soil and infected plants and examination of morphological and physiological features for identification by using microscopic and cultural characters. In the later part, we will learn recent research findings to identify this fungus using PCR-based molecular techniques.