Several Moesziomyces species have been reported to exhibit biological activity against biodegradable plastics, which are usually used in a number of industrial processes.

produce a wide range of value-added chemicals (such as secondary metabolites) which contains extracellular glycolipids, such as mannosylerythritol lipids (MEL) and ustilagic acid.

[6] Specimens of M. aphidis have been collected from water samples and on Rhizophora mangle leaves along the Perequê-Áçu River, located in São Paulo State, Brazil.

These have been reported in places such as the United States, China, Thailand, Brazil, India, France, Argentina, Korea and Nigeria from 2003 to 2015.

are connected with poaceous plants (Grass family), and Moesziomyces bullatus is commonly associated with smut in pearl millet.

[15] The genus name of Moesziomyces is in honour of Gustav von Moesz (1873-1946), who was a Hungarian mycologist and teacher of Phytopathology and Phytogeography.