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Newspaper
Willard Times Junction
Location
Willard, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 2013
Page
4
The article introduces fungi as a separate kingdom related to animals, not plants, with examples like foxfire and mushrooms. It explains hyphae spreading through materials, external digestion, spore-based reproduction, and how fungi obtain nutrients by releasing enzymes outside their bodies.
About 75 000 known fungi species exist but experts estimate up to 1.5 million. Fungi lack chlorophyll so they cannot photosynthesize. They thrive in dark places with hyphae spreading through food wood or soil enabling decomposition and nutrient cycling. Many form root symbioses with about 90 percent of plants aiding mineral and water uptake.
Fungi enrich foods like bread and blue cheeses and fuel medicines such as antibiotics and cholesterol drugs. They also cause diseases and crop losses, with examples including Dutch elm disease and white nose syndrome in bats. Cordyceps fungi turn insects into “zombies” by brain control and leaf-anchoring before death.
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