fungal importance

decomposers
- important in forest food webs
- only fungi can digest ligin in wood
- primary decomposers of forest floor litter
food for humans and animals
- mushrooms, yeast, cheese, wine and beer
- contain b vits, including pantothenic acid and niacin
antibiotics and other medications
ecological impacts of fungi
- agricultural diseases
- dutch elm disease, chesnut blight
- endophytes live in grasses, making themunpalatable to llvestock
- human diseases- athletes foot, lung infections, thrush
human diseases
- athletes foot,
- lung infection
- thrush

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fungal importance

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fungal importance

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2011-11-27T01:22:46Z

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