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Fungus

A fungus (PL: fungi[2] or funguses[3]) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom,[4] separately from the other eukaryotic kingdoms, which by one traditional classification include Plantae, Animalia, Protozoa, and Chromista.

Fungi
Temporal range: Early DevonianPresent (but see text) 410–0 Ma
Clockwise from top left:
Scientific classification
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
Clade: Holomycota
Kingdom: Fungi
(L.) R.T.Moore[1]
Subkingdoms/Phyla

A characteristic that places fungi in a different kingdom from plants, bacteria, and some protists is chitin in their cell walls. Fungi, like animals, are heterotrophs; they acquire their food by absorbing dissolved molecules, typically by secreting digestive enzymes into their environment. Fungi do not photosynthesize. Growth is their means of mobility, except for spores (a few of which are flagellated), which may travel through the air or water. Fungi are the principal decomposers in ecological systems. These and other differences place fungi in a single group of related organisms, named the Eumycota (true fungi or Eumycetes), that share a common ancestor (i.e. they form a monophyletic group), an interpretation that is also strongly supported by molecular phylogenetics. This fungal group is distinct from the structurally similar myxomycetes (slime molds) and oomycetes (water molds). The discipline of biology devoted to the study of fungi is known as mycology (from the Greek μύκης mykes, mushroom). In the past, mycology was regarded as a branch of botany, although it is now known fungi are genetically more closely related to animals than to plants.

Abundant worldwide, most fungi are inconspicuous because of the small size of their structures, and their cryptic lifestyles in soil or on dead matter. Fungi include symbionts of plants, animals, or other fungi and also parasites. They may become noticeable when fruiting, either as mushrooms or as molds. Fungi perform an essential role in the decomposition of organic matter and have fundamental roles in nutrient cycling and exchange in the environment. They have long been used as a direct source of human food, in the form of mushrooms and truffles; as a leavening agent for bread; and in the fermentation of various food products, such as wine, beer, and soy sauce. Since the 1940s, fungi have been used for the production of antibiotics, and, more recently, various enzymes produced by fungi are used industrially and in detergents. Fungi are also used as biological pesticides to control weeds, plant diseases, and insect pests. Many species produce bioactive compounds called mycotoxins, such as alkaloids and polyketides, that are toxic to animals, including humans. The fruiting structures of a few species contain psychotropic compounds and are consumed recreationally or in traditional spiritual ceremonies. Fungi can break down manufactured materials and buildings, and become significant pathogens of humans and other animals. Losses of crops due to fungal diseases (e.g., rice blast disease) or food spoilage can have a large impact on human food supplies and local economies.

The fungus kingdom encompasses an enormous diversity of taxa with varied ecologies, life cycle strategies, and morphologies ranging from unicellular aquatic chytrids to large mushrooms. However, little is known of the true biodiversity of the fungus kingdom, which has been estimated at 2.2 million to 3.8 million species.[5] Of these, only about 148,000 have been described,[6] with over 8,000 species known to be detrimental to plants and at least 300 that can be pathogenic to humans.[7] Ever since the pioneering 18th and 19th century taxonomical works of Carl Linnaeus, Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, and Elias Magnus Fries, fungi have been classified according to their morphology (e.g., characteristics such as spore color or microscopic features) or physiology. Advances in molecular genetics have opened the way for DNA analysis to be incorporated into taxonomy, which has sometimes challenged the historical groupings based on morphology and other traits. Phylogenetic studies published in the first decade of the 21st century have helped reshape the classification within the fungi kingdom, which is divided into one subkingdom, seven phyla, and ten subphyla.

Etymology

The English word fungus is directly adopted from the Latin fungus (mushroom), used in the writings of Horace and Pliny.[8] This in turn is derived from the Greek word sphongos (σφόγγος 'sponge'), which refers to the macroscopic structures and morphology of mushrooms and molds;[9] the root is also used in other languages, such as the German Schwamm ('sponge') and Schimmel ('mold').[10]

The word mycology is derived from the Greek mykes (μύκης 'mushroom') and logos (λόγος 'discourse').[11] It denotes the scientific study of fungi. The Latin adjectival form of "mycology" (mycologicæ) appeared as early as 1796 in a book on the subject by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon.[12] The word appeared in English as early as 1824 in a book by Robert Kaye Greville.[13] In 1836 the English naturalist Miles Joseph Berkeley's publication The English Flora of Sir James Edward Smith, Vol. 5. also refers to mycology as the study of fungi.[9][14]

A group of all the fungi present in a particular region is known as mycobiota (plural noun, no singular).[15] The term mycota is often used for this purpose, but many authors use it as a synonym of Fungi. The word funga has been proposed as a less ambiguous term morphologically similar to fauna and flora.[16] The Species Survival Commission (SSC) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in August 2021 asked that the phrase fauna and flora be replaced by fauna, flora, and funga.[17]

Characteristics

 
Fungal hyphae cells
 
Fungal cell cycle showing Dikaryons typical of Higher Fungi

Before the introduction of molecular methods for phylogenetic analysis, taxonomists considered fungi to be members of the plant kingdom because of similarities in lifestyle: both fungi and plants are mainly immobile, and have similarities in general morphology and growth habitat. Although inaccurate, the common misconception that fungi are plants persists among the general public due to their historical classification, as well as several similarities.[18][19] Like plants, fungi often grow in soil and, in the case of mushrooms, form conspicuous fruit bodies, which sometimes resemble plants such as mosses. The fungi are now considered a separate kingdom, distinct from both plants and animals, from which they appear to have diverged around one billion years ago (around the start of the Neoproterozoic Era).[20][21] Some morphological, biochemical, and genetic features are shared with other organisms, while others are unique to the fungi, clearly separating them from the other kingdoms:

Shared features:

Unique features:

  • Some species grow as unicellular yeasts that reproduce by budding or fission. Dimorphic fungi can switch between a yeast phase and a hyphal phase in response to environmental conditions.[32]
  • The fungal cell wall is made of a chitin-glucan complex; while glucans are also found in plants and chitin in the exoskeleton of arthropods,[34] fungi are the only organisms that combine these two structural molecules in their cell wall. Unlike those of plants and oomycetes, fungal cell walls do not contain cellulose.[35][36]
 
Omphalotus nidiformis, a bioluminescent mushroom

Most fungi lack an efficient system for the long-distance transport of water and nutrients, such as the xylem and phloem in many plants. To overcome this limitation, some fungi, such as Armillaria, form rhizomorphs,[37] which resemble and perform functions similar to the roots of plants. As eukaryotes, fungi possess a biosynthetic pathway for producing terpenes that uses mevalonic acid and pyrophosphate as chemical building blocks.[38] Plants and some other organisms have an additional terpene biosynthesis pathway in their chloroplasts, a structure that fungi and animals do not have.[39] Fungi produce several secondary metabolites that are similar or identical in structure to those made by plants.[38] Many of the plant and fungal enzymes that make these compounds differ from each other in sequence and other characteristics, which indicates separate origins and convergent evolution of these enzymes in the fungi and plants.[38][40]

Diversity

 
Bracket fungi on a tree stump

Fungi have a worldwide distribution, and grow in a wide range of habitats, including extreme environments such as deserts or areas with high salt concentrations[41] or ionizing radiation,[42] as well as in deep sea sediments.[43] Some can survive the intense UV and cosmic radiation encountered during space travel.[44] Most grow in terrestrial environments, though several species live partly or solely in aquatic habitats, such as the chytrid fungi Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and B. salamandrivorans, parasites that have been responsible for a worldwide decline in amphibian populations. These organisms spend part of their life cycle as a motile zoospore, enabling them to propel itself through water and enter their amphibian host.[45] Other examples of aquatic fungi include those living in hydrothermal areas of the ocean.[46]

 
Widespread white fungus in wood chip mulch in an Oklahoma garden[47]

As of 2020, around 148,000 species of fungi have been described by taxonomists,[6] but the global biodiversity of the fungus kingdom is not fully understood.[48] A 2017 estimate suggests there may be between 2.2 and 3.8 million species.[5] The number of new fungi species discovered yearly has increased from 1,000 to 1,500 per year about 10 years ago, to about 2000 with a peak of more than 2,500 species in 2016. In the year 2019, 1882 new species of fungi were described, and it was estimated that more than 90% of fungi remain unknown.[6] The following year, 2905 new species were described—the highest annual record of new fungus names.[49] In mycology, species have historically been distinguished by a variety of methods and concepts. Classification based on morphological characteristics, such as the size and shape of spores or fruiting structures, has traditionally dominated fungal taxonomy.[50] Species may also be distinguished by their biochemical and physiological characteristics, such as their ability to metabolize certain biochemicals, or their reaction to chemical tests. The biological species concept discriminates species based on their ability to mate. The application of molecular tools, such as DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis, to study diversity has greatly enhanced the resolution and added robustness to estimates of genetic diversity within various taxonomic groups.[51]

Mycology

 
In 1729, Pier Antonio Micheli first published descriptions of fungi.

Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the systematic study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy, and their use to humans as a source of medicine, food, and psychotropic substances consumed for religious purposes, as well as their dangers, such as poisoning or infection. The field of phytopathology, the study of plant diseases, is closely related because many plant pathogens are fungi.[52]

The use of fungi by humans dates back to prehistory; Ötzi the Iceman, a well-preserved mummy of a 5,300-year-old Neolithic man found frozen in the Austrian Alps, carried two species of polypore mushrooms that may have been used as tinder (Fomes fomentarius), or for medicinal purposes (Piptoporus betulinus).[53] Ancient peoples have used fungi as food sources—often unknowingly—for millennia, in the preparation of leavened bread and fermented juices. Some of the oldest written records contain references to the destruction of crops that were probably caused by pathogenic fungi.[54]

History

Mycology became a systematic science after the development of the microscope in the 17th century. Although fungal spores were first observed by Giambattista della Porta in 1588, the seminal work in the development of mycology is considered to be the publication of Pier Antonio Micheli's 1729 work Nova plantarum genera.[55] Micheli not only observed spores but also showed that, under the proper conditions, they could be induced into growing into the same species of fungi from which they originated.[56] Extending the use of the binomial system of nomenclature introduced by Carl Linnaeus in his Species plantarum (1753), the Dutch Christiaan Hendrik Persoon (1761–1836) established the first classification of mushrooms with such skill as to be considered a founder of modern mycology. Later, Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878) further elaborated the classification of fungi, using spore color and microscopic characteristics, methods still used by taxonomists today. Other notable early contributors to mycology in the 17th–19th and early 20th centuries include Miles Joseph Berkeley, August Carl Joseph Corda, Anton de Bary, the brothers Louis René and Charles Tulasne, Arthur H. R. Buller, Curtis G. Lloyd, and Pier Andrea Saccardo. In the 20th and 21st centuries, advances in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, biotechnology, DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis has provided new insights into fungal relationships and biodiversity, and has challenged traditional morphology-based groupings in fungal taxonomy.[57]

Morphology

Microscopic structures

 

Most fungi grow as hyphae, which are cylindrical, thread-like structures 2–10 µm in diameter and up to several centimeters in length. Hyphae grow at their tips (apices); new hyphae are typically formed by emergence of new tips along existing hyphae by a process called branching, or occasionally growing hyphal tips fork, giving rise to two parallel-growing hyphae.[58] Hyphae also sometimes fuse when they come into contact, a process called hyphal fusion (or anastomosis). These growth processes lead to the development of a mycelium, an interconnected network of hyphae.[32] Hyphae can be either septate or coenocytic. Septate hyphae are divided into compartments separated by cross walls (internal cell walls, called septa, that are formed at right angles to the cell wall giving the hypha its shape), with each compartment containing one or more nuclei; coenocytic hyphae are not compartmentalized.[59] Septa have pores that allow cytoplasm, organelles, and sometimes nuclei to pass through; an example is the dolipore septum in fungi of the phylum Basidiomycota.[60] Coenocytic hyphae are in essence multinucleate supercells.[61]

Many species have developed specialized hyphal structures for nutrient uptake from living hosts; examples include haustoria in plant-parasitic species of most fungal phyla,[62] and arbuscules of several mycorrhizal fungi, which penetrate into the host cells to consume nutrients.[63]

Although fungi are opisthokonts—a grouping of evolutionarily related organisms broadly characterized by a single posterior flagellum—all phyla except for the chytrids have lost their posterior flagella.[64] Fungi are unusual among the eukaryotes in having a cell wall that, in addition to glucans (e.g., β-1,3-glucan) and other typical components, also contains the biopolymer chitin.[36]

Macroscopic structures

Fungal mycelia can become visible to the naked eye, for example, on various surfaces and substrates, such as damp walls and spoiled food, where they are commonly called molds. Mycelia grown on solid agar media in laboratory petri dishes are usually referred to as colonies. These colonies can exhibit growth shapes and colors (due to spores or pigmentation) that can be used as diagnostic features in the identification of species or groups.[65] Some individual fungal colonies can reach extraordinary dimensions and ages as in the case of a clonal colony of Armillaria solidipes, which extends over an area of more than 900 ha (3.5 square miles), with an estimated age of nearly 9,000 years.[66]

The apothecium—a specialized structure important in sexual reproduction in the ascomycetes—is a cup-shaped fruit body that is often macroscopic and holds the hymenium, a layer of tissue containing the spore-bearing cells.[67] The fruit bodies of the basidiomycetes (basidiocarps) and some ascomycetes can sometimes grow very large, and many are well known as mushrooms.

Growth and physiology

 
Mold growth covering a decaying peach. The frames were taken approximately 12 hours apart over a period of six days.

The growth of fungi as hyphae on or in solid substrates or as single cells in aquatic environments is adapted for the efficient extraction of nutrients, because these growth forms have high surface area to volume ratios.[68] Hyphae are specifically adapted for growth on solid surfaces, and to invade substrates and tissues.[69] They can exert large penetrative mechanical forces; for example, many plant pathogens, including Magnaporthe grisea, form a structure called an appressorium that evolved to puncture plant tissues.[70] The pressure generated by the appressorium, directed against the plant epidermis, can exceed 8 megapascals (1,200 psi).[70] The filamentous fungus Paecilomyces lilacinus uses a similar structure to penetrate the eggs of nematodes.[71]

The mechanical pressure exerted by the appressorium is generated from physiological processes that increase intracellular turgor by producing osmolytes such as glycerol.[72] Adaptations such as these are complemented by hydrolytic enzymes secreted into the environment to digest large organic molecules—such as polysaccharides, proteins, and lipids—into smaller molecules that may then be absorbed as nutrients.[73][74][75] The vast majority of filamentous fungi grow in a polar fashion (extending in one direction) by elongation at the tip (apex) of the hypha.[76] Other forms of fungal growth include intercalary extension (longitudinal expansion of hyphal compartments that are below the apex) as in the case of some endophytic fungi,[77] or growth by volume expansion during the development of mushroom stipes and other large organs.[78] Growth of fungi as multicellular structures consisting of somatic and reproductive cells—a feature independently evolved in animals and plants[79]—has several functions, including the development of fruit bodies for dissemination of sexual spores (see above) and biofilms for substrate colonization and intercellular communication.[80]

The fungi are traditionally considered heterotrophs, organisms that rely solely on carbon fixed by other organisms for metabolism. Fungi have evolved a high degree of metabolic versatility that allows them to use a diverse range of organic substrates for growth, including simple compounds such as nitrate, ammonia, acetate, or ethanol.[81][82] In some species the pigment melanin may play a role in extracting energy from ionizing radiation, such as gamma radiation. This form of "radiotrophic" growth has been described for only a few species, the effects on growth rates are small, and the underlying biophysical and biochemical processes are not well known.[42] This process might bear similarity to CO2 fixation via visible light, but instead uses ionizing radiation as a source of energy.[83]

Reproduction

Fungal reproduction is complex, reflecting the differences in lifestyles and genetic makeup within this diverse kingdom of organisms.[84] It is estimated that a third of all fungi reproduce using more than one method of propagation; for example, reproduction may occur in two well-differentiated stages within the life cycle of a species, the teleomorph (sexual reproduction) and the anamorph (asexual reproduction).[85] Environmental conditions trigger genetically determined developmental states that lead to the creation of specialized structures for sexual or asexual reproduction. These structures aid reproduction by efficiently dispersing spores or spore-containing propagules.

Asexual reproduction

Asexual reproduction occurs via vegetative spores (conidia) or through mycelial fragmentation. Mycelial fragmentation occurs when a fungal mycelium separates into pieces, and each component grows into a separate mycelium. Mycelial fragmentation and vegetative spores maintain clonal populations adapted to a specific niche, and allow more rapid dispersal than sexual reproduction.[86] The "Fungi imperfecti" (fungi lacking the perfect or sexual stage) or Deuteromycota comprise all the species that lack an observable sexual cycle.[87] Deuteromycota (alternatively known as Deuteromycetes, conidial fungi, or mitosporic fungi) is not an accepted taxonomic clade and is now taken to mean simply fungi that lack a known sexual stage.[88]

Sexual reproduction

Sexual reproduction with meiosis has been directly observed in all fungal phyla except Glomeromycota[89] (genetic analysis suggests meiosis in Glomeromycota as well). It differs in many aspects from sexual reproduction in animals or plants. Differences also exist between fungal groups and can be used to discriminate species by morphological differences in sexual structures and reproductive strategies.[90][91] Mating experiments between fungal isolates may identify species on the basis of biological species concepts.[91] The major fungal groupings have initially been delineated based on the morphology of their sexual structures and spores; for example, the spore-containing structures, asci and basidia, can be used in the identification of ascomycetes and basidiomycetes, respectively. Fungi employ two mating systems: heterothallic species allow mating only between individuals of the opposite mating type, whereas homothallic species can mate, and sexually reproduce, with any other individual or itself.[92]

Most fungi have both a haploid and a diploid stage in their life cycles. In sexually reproducing fungi, compatible individuals may combine by fusing their hyphae together into an interconnected network; this process, anastomosis, is required for the initiation of the sexual cycle. Many ascomycetes and basidiomycetes go through a dikaryotic stage, in which the nuclei inherited from the two parents do not combine immediately after cell fusion, but remain separate in the hyphal cells (see heterokaryosis).[93]

 
The 8-spore asci of Morchella elata, viewed with phase contrast microscopy

In ascomycetes, dikaryotic hyphae of the hymenium (the spore-bearing tissue layer) form a characteristic hook (crozier) at the hyphal septum. During cell division, the formation of the hook ensures proper distribution of the newly divided nuclei into the apical and basal hyphal compartments. An ascus (plural asci) is then formed, in which karyogamy (nuclear fusion) occurs. Asci are embedded in an ascocarp, or fruiting body. Karyogamy in the asci is followed immediately by meiosis and the production of ascospores. After dispersal, the ascospores may germinate and form a new haploid mycelium.[94]

Sexual reproduction in basidiomycetes is similar to that of the ascomycetes. Compatible haploid hyphae fuse to produce a dikaryotic mycelium. However, the dikaryotic phase is more extensive in the basidiomycetes, often also present in the vegetatively growing mycelium. A specialized anatomical structure, called a clamp connection, is formed at each hyphal septum. As with the structurally similar hook in the ascomycetes, the clamp connection in the basidiomycetes is required for controlled transfer of nuclei during cell division, to maintain the dikaryotic stage with two genetically different nuclei in each hyphal compartment.[95] A basidiocarp is formed in which club-like structures known as basidia generate haploid basidiospores after karyogamy and meiosis.[96] The most commonly known basidiocarps are mushrooms, but they may also take other forms (see Morphology section).

In fungi formerly classified as Zygomycota, haploid hyphae of two individuals fuse, forming a gametangium, a specialized cell structure that becomes a fertile gamete-producing cell. The gametangium develops into a zygospore, a thick-walled spore formed by the union of gametes. When the zygospore germinates, it undergoes meiosis, generating new haploid hyphae, which may then form asexual sporangiospores. These sporangiospores allow the fungus to rapidly disperse and germinate into new genetically identical haploid fungal mycelia.[97]

Spore dispersal

The spores of most of the researched species of fungi are transported by wind.[98][99] Such species often produce dry or hydrophobic spores that do not absorb water and are readily scattered by raindrops, for example.[98][100][101] In other species, both asexual and sexual spores or sporangiospores are often actively dispersed by forcible ejection from their reproductive structures. This ejection ensures exit of the spores from the reproductive structures as well as traveling through the air over long distances.

 
The bird's nest fungus Cyathus stercoreus

Specialized mechanical and physiological mechanisms, as well as spore surface structures (such as hydrophobins), enable efficient spore ejection.[102] For example, the structure of the spore-bearing cells in some ascomycete species is such that the buildup of substances affecting cell volume and fluid balance enables the explosive discharge of spores into the air.[103] The forcible discharge of single spores termed ballistospores involves formation of a small drop of water (Buller's drop), which upon contact with the spore leads to its projectile release with an initial acceleration of more than 10,000 g;[104] the net result is that the spore is ejected 0.01–0.02 cm, sufficient distance for it to fall through the gills or pores into the air below.[105] Other fungi, like the puffballs, rely on alternative mechanisms for spore release, such as external mechanical forces. The hydnoid fungi (tooth fungi) produce spores on pendant, tooth-like or spine-like projections.[106] The bird's nest fungi use the force of falling water drops to liberate the spores from cup-shaped fruiting bodies.[107] Another strategy is seen in the stinkhorns, a group of fungi with lively colors and putrid odor that attract insects to disperse their spores.[108]

Homothallism

In homothallic sexual reproduction, two haploid nuclei derived from the same individual fuse to form a zygote that can then undergo meiosis. Homothallic fungi include species with an Aspergillus-like asexual stage (anamorphs) occurring in numerous different genera,[109] several species of the ascomycete genus Cochliobolus,[110] and the ascomycete Pneumocystis jirovecii.[111] The earliest mode of sexual reproduction among eukaryotes was likely homothallism, that is, self-fertile unisexual reproduction.[112]

Other sexual processes

Besides regular sexual reproduction with meiosis, certain fungi, such as those in the genera Penicillium and Aspergillus, may exchange genetic material via parasexual processes, initiated by anastomosis between hyphae and plasmogamy of fungal cells.[113] The frequency and relative importance of parasexual events is unclear and may be lower than other sexual processes. It is known to play a role in intraspecific hybridization[114] and is likely required for hybridization between species, which has been associated with major events in fungal evolution.[115]

Evolution

In contrast to plants and animals, the early fossil record of the fungi is meager. Factors that likely contribute to the under-representation of fungal species among fossils include the nature of fungal fruiting bodies, which are soft, fleshy, and easily degradable tissues and the microscopic dimensions of most fungal structures, which therefore are not readily evident. Fungal fossils are difficult to distinguish from those of other microbes, and are most easily identified when they resemble extant fungi.[116] Often recovered from a permineralized plant or animal host, these samples are typically studied by making thin-section preparations that can be examined with light microscopy or transmission electron microscopy.[117] Researchers study compression fossils by dissolving the surrounding matrix with acid and then using light or scanning electron microscopy to examine surface details.[118]

 
Prototaxites milwaukeensis (Penhallow, 1908)—a Middle Devonian fungus from Wisconsin

The earliest fossils possessing features typical of fungi date to the Paleoproterozoic era, some 2,400 million years ago (Ma); these multicellular benthic organisms had filamentous structures capable of anastomosis.[119] Other studies (2009) estimate the arrival of fungal organisms at about 760–1060 Ma on the basis of comparisons of the rate of evolution in closely related groups.[120] For much of the Paleozoic Era (542–251 Ma), the fungi appear to have been aquatic and consisted of organisms similar to the extant chytrids in having flagellum-bearing spores.[121] The evolutionary adaptation from an aquatic to a terrestrial lifestyle necessitated a diversification of ecological strategies for obtaining nutrients, including parasitism, saprobism, and the development of mutualistic relationships such as mycorrhiza and lichenization.[122] Studies suggest that the ancestral ecological state of the Ascomycota was saprobism, and that independent lichenization events have occurred multiple times.[123]

In May 2019, scientists reported the discovery of a fossilized fungus, named Ourasphaira giraldae, in the Canadian Arctic, that may have grown on land a billion years ago, well before plants were living on land.[124][125][126] Pyritized fungus-like microfossils preserved in the basal Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (~635 Ma) have been reported in South China.[127] Earlier, it had been presumed that the fungi colonized the land during the Cambrian (542–488.3 Ma), also long before land plants.[128] Fossilized hyphae and spores recovered from the Ordovician of Wisconsin (460 Ma) resemble modern-day Glomerales, and existed at a time when the land flora likely consisted of only non-vascular bryophyte-like plants.[129] Prototaxites, which was probably a fungus or lichen, would have been the tallest organism of the late Silurian and early Devonian. Fungal fossils do not become common and uncontroversial until the early Devonian (416–359.2 Ma), when they occur abundantly in the Rhynie chert, mostly as Zygomycota and Chytridiomycota.[128][130][131] At about this same time, approximately 400 Ma, the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota diverged,[132] and all modern classes of fungi were present by the Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian, 318.1–299 Ma).[133]

Lichens formed a component of the early terrestrial ecosystems, and the estimated age of the oldest terrestrial lichen fossil is 415 Ma;[134] this date roughly corresponds to the age of the oldest known sporocarp fossil, a Paleopyrenomycites species found in the Rhynie Chert.[135] The oldest fossil with microscopic features resembling modern-day basidiomycetes is Palaeoancistrus, found permineralized with a fern from the Pennsylvanian.[136] Rare in the fossil record are the Homobasidiomycetes (a taxon roughly equivalent to the mushroom-producing species of the Agaricomycetes). Two amber-preserved specimens provide evidence that the earliest known mushroom-forming fungi (the extinct species Archaeomarasmius leggetti) appeared during the late Cretaceous, 90 Ma.[137][138]

Some time after the Permian–Triassic extinction event (251.4 Ma), a fungal spike (originally thought to be an extraordinary abundance of fungal spores in sediments) formed, suggesting that fungi were the dominant life form at this time, representing nearly 100% of the available fossil record for this period.[139] However, the relative proportion of fungal spores relative to spores formed by algal species is difficult to assess,[140] the spike did not appear worldwide,[141][142] and in many places it did not fall on the Permian–Triassic boundary.[143]

Sixty-five million years ago, immediately after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event that famously killed off most dinosaurs, there was a dramatic increase in evidence of fungi; apparently the death of most plant and animal species led to a huge fungal bloom like "a massive compost heap".[144]

Taxonomy

Although commonly included in botany curricula and textbooks, fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants and are placed with the animals in the monophyletic group of opisthokonts.[145] Analyses using molecular phylogenetics support a monophyletic origin of fungi.[51][146] The taxonomy of fungi is in a state of constant flux, especially due to research based on DNA comparisons. These current phylogenetic analyses often overturn classifications based on older and sometimes less discriminative methods based on morphological features and biological species concepts obtained from experimental matings.[147]

There is no unique generally accepted system at the higher taxonomic levels and there are frequent name changes at every level, from species upwards. Efforts among researchers are now underway to establish and encourage usage of a unified and more consistent nomenclature.[51][148] Until relatively recent (2012) changes to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants, fungal species could also have multiple scientific names depending on their life cycle and mode (sexual or asexual) of reproduction.[149] Web sites such as Index Fungorum and MycoBank are officially recognized nomenclatural repositories and list current names of fungal species (with cross-references to older synonyms).[150]

The 2007 classification of Kingdom Fungi is the result of a large-scale collaborative research effort involving dozens of mycologists and other scientists working on fungal taxonomy.[51] It recognizes seven phyla, two of which—the Ascomycota and the Basidiomycota—are contained within a branch representing subkingdom Dikarya, the most species rich and familiar group, including all the mushrooms, most food-spoilage molds, most plant pathogenic fungi, and the beer, wine, and bread yeasts. The accompanying cladogram depicts the major fungal taxa and their relationship to opisthokont and unikont organisms, based on the work of Philippe Silar,[151] "The Mycota: A Comprehensive Treatise on Fungi as Experimental Systems for Basic and Applied Research"[152] and Tedersoo et al. 2018.[153] The lengths of the branches are not proportional to evolutionary distances.

Zoosporia
Rozellomyceta
Rozellomycota

Rozellomycetes

Microsporidiomycota

Mitosporidium

Aphelidiomyceta
Eumycota
Chytridiomyceta
Neocallimastigomycota

Neocallimastigomycetes

Chytridiomycota
Monoblepharomycotina
Chytridiomycotina

Mesochytriomycetes

Chytridiomycetes

Taxonomic groups

 
Main groups of fungi

The major phyla (sometimes called divisions) of fungi have been classified mainly on the basis of characteristics of their sexual reproductive structures. As of 2019, nine major lineages have been identified: Opisthosporidia, Chytridiomycota, Neocallimastigomycota, Blastocladiomycota, Zoopagomycota, Mucoromycota, Glomeromycota, Ascomycota and Basidiomycota.[154]

Phylogenetic analysis has demonstrated that the Microsporidia, unicellular parasites of animals and protists, are fairly recent and highly derived endobiotic fungi (living within the tissue of another species).[121] Previously considered to be "primitive" protozoa, they are now thought to be either a basal branch of the Fungi, or a sister group–each other's closest evolutionary relative.[155]

The Chytridiomycota are commonly known as chytrids. These fungi are distributed worldwide. Chytrids and their close relatives Neocallimastigomycota and Blastocladiomycota (below) are the only fungi with active motility, producing zoospores that are capable of active movement through aqueous phases with a single flagellum, leading early taxonomists to classify them as protists. Molecular phylogenies, inferred from rRNA sequences in ribosomes, suggest that the Chytrids are a basal group divergent from the other fungal phyla, consisting of four major clades with suggestive evidence for paraphyly or possibly polyphyly.[156]

The Blastocladiomycota were previously considered a taxonomic clade within the Chytridiomycota. Molecular data and ultrastructural characteristics, however, place the Blastocladiomycota as a sister clade to the Zygomycota, Glomeromycota, and Dikarya (Ascomycota and Basidiomycota). The blastocladiomycetes are saprotrophs, feeding on decomposing organic matter, and they are parasites of all eukaryotic groups. Unlike their close relatives, the chytrids, most of which exhibit zygotic meiosis, the blastocladiomycetes undergo sporic meiosis.[121]

The Neocallimastigomycota were earlier placed in the phylum Chytridiomycota. Members of this small phylum are anaerobic organisms, living in the digestive system of larger herbivorous mammals and in other terrestrial and aquatic environments enriched in cellulose (e.g., domestic waste landfill sites).[157] They lack mitochondria but contain hydrogenosomes of mitochondrial origin. As in the related chrytrids, neocallimastigomycetes form zoospores that are posteriorly uniflagellate or polyflagellate.[51]

 
Arbuscular mycorrhiza seen under microscope. Flax root cortical cells containing paired arbuscules.
 
Diagram of an apothecium (the typical cup-like reproductive structure of Ascomycetes) showing sterile tissues as well as developing and mature asci.

Members of the Glomeromycota form arbuscular mycorrhizae, a form of mutualist symbiosis wherein fungal hyphae invade plant root cells and both species benefit from the resulting increased supply of nutrients. All known Glomeromycota species reproduce asexually.[89] The symbiotic association between the Glomeromycota and plants is ancient, with evidence dating to 400 million years ago.[158] Formerly part of the Zygomycota (commonly known as 'sugar' and 'pin' molds), the Glomeromycota were elevated to phylum status in 2001 and now replace the older phylum Zygomycota.[159] Fungi that were placed in the Zygomycota are now being reassigned to the Glomeromycota, or the subphyla incertae sedis Mucoromycotina, Kickxellomycotina, the Zoopagomycotina and the Entomophthoromycotina.[51] Some well-known examples of fungi formerly in the Zygomycota include black bread mold (Rhizopus stolonifer), and Pilobolus species, capable of ejecting spores several meters through the air.[160] Medically relevant genera include Mucor, Rhizomucor, and Rhizopus.[161]

The Ascomycota, commonly known as sac fungi or ascomycetes, constitute the largest taxonomic group within the Eumycota.[50] These fungi form meiotic spores called ascospores, which are enclosed in a special sac-like structure called an ascus. This phylum includes morels, a few mushrooms and truffles, unicellular yeasts (e.g., of the genera Saccharomyces, Kluyveromyces, Pichia, and Candida), and many filamentous fungi living as saprotrophs, parasites, and mutualistic symbionts (e.g. lichens). Prominent and important genera of filamentous ascomycetes include Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, and Claviceps. Many ascomycete species have only been observed undergoing asexual reproduction (called anamorphic species), but analysis of molecular data has often been able to identify their closest teleomorphs in the Ascomycota.[162] Because the products of meiosis are retained within the sac-like ascus, ascomycetes have been used for elucidating principles of genetics and heredity (e.g., Neurospora crassa).[163]

Members of the Basidiomycota, commonly known as the club fungi or basidiomycetes, produce meiospores called basidiospores on club-like stalks called basidia. Most common mushrooms belong to this group, as well as rust and smut fungi, which are major pathogens of grains. Other important basidiomycetes include the maize pathogen Ustilago maydis,[164] human commensal species of the genus Malassezia,[165] and the opportunistic human pathogen, Cryptococcus neoformans.[166]

Fungus-like organisms

Because of similarities in morphology and lifestyle, the slime molds (mycetozoans, plasmodiophorids, acrasids, Fonticula and labyrinthulids, now in Amoebozoa, Rhizaria, Excavata, Opisthokonta and Stramenopiles, respectively), water molds (oomycetes) and hyphochytrids (both Stramenopiles) were formerly classified in the kingdom Fungi, in groups like Mastigomycotina, Gymnomycota and Phycomycetes. The slime molds were studied also as protozoans, leading to an ambiregnal, duplicated taxonomy.[167]

Unlike true fungi, the cell walls of oomycetes contain cellulose and lack chitin. Hyphochytrids have both chitin and cellulose. Slime molds lack a cell wall during the assimilative phase (except labyrinthulids, which have a wall of scales), and take in nutrients by ingestion (phagocytosis, except labyrinthulids) rather than absorption (osmotrophy, as fungi, labyrinthulids, oomycetes and hyphochytrids). Neither water molds nor slime molds are closely related to the true fungi, and, therefore, taxonomists no longer group them in the kingdom Fungi. Nonetheless, studies of the oomycetes and myxomycetes are still often included in mycology textbooks and primary research literature.[168]

The Eccrinales and Amoebidiales are opisthokont protists, previously thought to be zygomycete fungi. Other groups now in Opisthokonta (e.g., Corallochytrium, Ichthyosporea) were also at given time classified as fungi. The genus Blastocystis, now in Stramenopiles, was originally classified as a yeast. Ellobiopsis, now in Alveolata, was considered a chytrid. The bacteria were also included in fungi in some classifications, as the group Schizomycetes.

The Rozellida clade, including the "ex-chytrid" Rozella, is a genetically disparate group known mostly from environmental DNA sequences that is a sister group to fungi.[154] Members of the group that have been isolated lack the chitinous cell wall that is characteristic of fungi. Alternatively, Rozella can be classified as a basal fungal group.[146]

The nucleariids may be the next sister group to the eumycete clade, and as such could be included in an expanded fungal kingdom.[145] Many Actinomycetales (Actinomycetota), a group with many filamentous bacteria, were also long believed to be fungi.[169][170]

Ecology

 
A pin mold decomposing a peach

Although often inconspicuous, fungi occur in every environment on Earth and play very important roles in most ecosystems. Along with bacteria, fungi are the major decomposers in most terrestrial (and some aquatic) ecosystems, and therefore play a critical role in biogeochemical cycles[171] and in many food webs. As decomposers, they play an essential role in nutrient cycling, especially as saprotrophs and symbionts, degrading organic matter to inorganic molecules, which can then re-enter anabolic metabolic pathways in plants or other organisms.[172][173]

Symbiosis

Many fungi have important symbiotic relationships with organisms from most if not all kingdoms.[174][175][176] These interactions can be mutualistic or antagonistic in nature, or in the case of commensal fungi are of no apparent benefit or detriment to the host.[177][178][179]

With plants

Mycorrhizal symbiosis between plants and fungi is one of the most well-known plant–fungus associations and is of significant importance for plant growth and persistence in many ecosystems; over 90% of all plant species engage in mycorrhizal relationships with fungi and are dependent upon this relationship for survival.[180]

 
The dark filaments are hyphae of the endophytic fungus Epichloë coenophiala in the intercellular spaces of tall fescue leaf sheath tissue

The mycorrhizal symbiosis is ancient, dating back to at least 400 million years.[158] It often increases the plant's uptake of inorganic compounds, such as nitrate and phosphate from soils having low concentrations of these key plant nutrients.[172][181] The fungal partners may also mediate plant-to-plant transfer of carbohydrates and other nutrients.[182] Such mycorrhizal communities are called "common mycorrhizal networks".[183][184] A special case of mycorrhiza is myco-heterotrophy, whereby the plant parasitizes the fungus, obtaining all of its nutrients from its fungal symbiont.[185] Some fungal species inhabit the tissues inside roots, stems, and leaves, in which case they are called endophytes.[186] Similar to mycorrhiza, endophytic colonization by fungi may benefit both symbionts; for example, endophytes of grasses impart to their host increased resistance to herbivores and other environmental stresses and receive food and shelter from the plant in return.[187]

With algae and cyanobacteria

 
The lichen Lobaria pulmonaria, a symbiosis of fungal, algal, and cyanobacterial species

Lichens are a symbiotic relationship between fungi and photosynthetic algae or cyanobacteria. The photosynthetic partner in the relationship is referred to in lichen terminology as a "photobiont". The fungal part of the relationship is composed mostly of various species of ascomycetes and a few basidiomycetes.[188] Lichens occur in every ecosystem on all continents, play a key role in soil formation and the initiation of biological succession,[189] and are prominent in some extreme environments, including polar, alpine, and semiarid desert regions.[190] They are able to grow on inhospitable surfaces, including bare soil, rocks, tree bark, wood, shells, barnacles and leaves.[191] As in mycorrhizas, the photobiont provides sugars and other carbohydrates via photosynthesis to the fungus, while the fungus provides minerals and water to the photobiont. The functions of both symbiotic organisms are so closely intertwined that they function almost as a single organism; in most cases the resulting organism differs greatly from the individual components.[192] Lichenization is a common mode of nutrition for fungi; around 27% of known fungi—more than 19,400 species—are lichenized.[193] Characteristics common to most lichens include obtaining organic carbon by photosynthesis, slow growth, small size, long life, long-lasting (seasonal) vegetative reproductive structures, mineral nutrition obtained largely from airborne sources, and greater tolerance of desiccation than most other photosynthetic organisms in the same habitat.[194]

With insects

Many insects also engage in mutualistic relationships with fungi. Several groups of ants cultivate fungi in the order Chaetothyriales for several purposes: as a food source, as a structural component of their nests, and as a part of an ant/plant symbiosis in the domatia (tiny chambers in plants that house arthropods).[195] Ambrosia beetles cultivate various species of fungi in the bark of trees that they infest.[196] Likewise, females of several wood wasp species (genus Sirex) inject their eggs together with spores of the wood-rotting fungus Amylostereum areolatum into the sapwood of pine trees; the growth of the fungus provides ideal nutritional conditions for the development of the wasp larvae.[197] At least one species of stingless bee has a relationship with a fungus in the genus Monascus, where the larvae consume and depend on fungus transferred from old to new nests.[198] Termites on the African savannah are also known to cultivate fungi,[174] and yeasts of the genera Candida and Lachancea inhabit the gut of a wide range of insects, including neuropterans, beetles, and cockroaches; it is not known whether these fungi benefit their hosts.[199] Fungi growing in dead wood are essential for xylophagous insects (e.g. woodboring beetles).[200][201][202] They deliver nutrients needed by xylophages to nutritionally scarce dead wood.[203][201][202] Thanks to this nutritional enrichment the larvae of the woodboring insect is able to grow and develop to adulthood.[200] The larvae of many families of fungicolous flies, particularly those within the superfamily Sciaroidea such as the Mycetophilidae and some Keroplatidae feed on fungal fruiting bodies and sterile mycorrhizae.[204]

As pathogens and parasites

 
The plant pathogen Puccinia magellanicum (calafate rust) causes the defect known as witch's broom, seen here on a barberry shrub in Chile.
 
Gram stain of Candida albicans from a vaginal swab from a woman with candidiasis, showing hyphae, and chlamydospores, which are 2–4 µm in diameter.

Many fungi are parasites on plants, animals (including humans), and other fungi. Serious pathogens of many cultivated plants causing extensive damage and losses to agriculture and forestry include the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae,[205] tree pathogens such as Ophiostoma ulmi and Ophiostoma novo-ulmi causing Dutch elm disease,[206] Cryphonectria parasitica responsible for chestnut blight,[207] and Phymatotrichopsis omnivora causing Texas Root Rot, and plant pathogens in the genera Fusarium, Ustilago, Alternaria, and Cochliobolus.[178] Some carnivorous fungi, like Paecilomyces lilacinus, are predators of nematodes, which they capture using an array of specialized structures such as constricting rings or adhesive nets.[208] Many fungi that are plant pathogens, such as Magnaporthe oryzae, can switch from being biotrophic (parasitic on living plants) to being necrotrophic (feeding on the dead tissues of plants they have killed).[209] This same principle is applied to fungi-feeding parasites, including Asterotremella albida, which feeds on the fruit bodies of other fungi both while they are living and after they are dead.[210]

Some fungi can cause serious diseases in humans, several of which may be fatal if untreated. These include aspergillosis, candidiasis, coccidioidomycosis, cryptococcosis, histoplasmosis, mycetomas, and paracoccidioidomycosis. Furthermore, persons with immuno-deficiencies are particularly susceptible to disease by genera such as Aspergillus, Candida, Cryptoccocus,[179][211][212] Histoplasma,[213] and Pneumocystis.[214] Other fungi can attack eyes, nails, hair, and especially skin, the so-called dermatophytic and keratinophilic fungi, and cause local infections such as ringworm and athlete's foot.[215] Fungal spores are also a cause of allergies, and fungi from different taxonomic groups can evoke allergic reactions.[216]

As targets of mycoparasites

Organisms that parasitize fungi are known as mycoparasitic organisms. About 300 species of fungi and fungus-like organisms, belonging to 13 classes and 113 genera, are used as biocontrol agents against plant fungal diseases.[217] Fungi can also act as mycoparasites or antagonists of other fungi, such as Hypomyces chrysospermus, which grows on bolete mushrooms. Fungi can also become the target of infection by mycoviruses.[218][219]

Communication

There appears to be electrical communication between fungi in word-like components according to spiking characteristics.[220]

Mycotoxins

 
Ergotamine, a major mycotoxin produced by Claviceps species, which if ingested can cause gangrene, convulsions, and hallucinations

Many fungi produce biologically active compounds, several of which are toxic to animals or plants and are therefore called mycotoxins. Of particular relevance to humans are mycotoxins produced by molds causing food spoilage, and poisonous mushrooms (see above). Particularly infamous are the lethal amatoxins in some Amanita mushrooms, and ergot alkaloids, which have a long history of causing serious epidemics of ergotism (St Anthony's Fire) in people consuming rye or related cereals contaminated with sclerotia of the ergot fungus, Claviceps purpurea.[221] Other notable mycotoxins include the aflatoxins, which are insidious liver toxins and highly carcinogenic metabolites produced by certain Aspergillus species often growing in or on grains and nuts consumed by humans, ochratoxins, patulin, and trichothecenes (e.g., T-2 mycotoxin) and fumonisins, which have significant impact on human food supplies or animal livestock.[222]

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites (or natural products), and research has established the existence of biochemical pathways solely for the purpose of producing mycotoxins and other natural products in fungi.[38] Mycotoxins may provide fitness benefits in terms of physiological adaptation, competition with other microbes and fungi, and protection from consumption (fungivory).[223][224] Many fungal secondary metabolites (or derivatives) are used medically, as described under Human use below.

Pathogenic mechanisms

Ustilago maydis is a pathogenic plant fungus that causes smut disease in maize and teosinte. Plants have evolved efficient defense systems against pathogenic microbes such as U. maydis. A rapid defense reaction after pathogen attack is the oxidative burst where the plant produces reactive oxygen species at the site of the attempted invasion. U. maydis can respond to the oxidative burst with an oxidative stress response, regulated by the gene YAP1. The response protects U. maydis from the host defense, and is necessary for the pathogen's virulence.[225] Furthermore, U. maydis has a well-established recombinational DNA repair system which acts during mitosis and meiosis.[226] The system may assist the pathogen in surviving DNA damage arising from the host plant's oxidative defensive response to infection.[227]

Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast that can live in both plants and animals. C. neoformans usually infects the lungs, where it is phagocytosed by alveolar macrophages.[228] Some C. neoformans can survive inside macrophages, which appears to be the basis for latency, disseminated disease, and resistance to antifungal agents. One mechanism by which C. neoformans survives the hostile macrophage environment is by up-regulating the expression of genes involved in the oxidative stress response.[228] Another mechanism involves meiosis. The majority of C. neoformans are mating "type a". Filaments of mating "type a" ordinarily have haploid nuclei, but they can become diploid (perhaps by endoduplication or by stimulated nuclear fusion) to form blastospores. The diploid nuclei of blastospores can undergo meiosis, including recombination, to form haploid basidiospores that can be dispersed.[229] This process is referred to as monokaryotic fruiting. This process requires a gene called DMC1, which is a conserved homologue of genes recA in bacteria and RAD51 in eukaryotes, that mediates homologous chromosome pairing during meiosis and repair of DNA double-strand breaks. Thus, C. neoformans can undergo a meiosis, monokaryotic fruiting, that promotes recombinational repair in the oxidative, DNA damaging environment of the host macrophage, and the repair capability may contribute to its virulence.[227][229]

Human use

The human use of fungi for food preparation or preservation and other purposes is extensive and has a long history. Mushroom farming and mushroom gathering are large industries in many countries. The study of the historical uses and sociological impact of fungi is known as ethnomycology. Because of the capacity of this group to produce an enormous range of natural products with antimicrobial or other biological activities, many species have long been used or are being developed for industrial production of antibiotics, vitamins, and anti-cancer and cholesterol-lowering drugs. Methods have been developed for genetic engineering of fungi,[230] enabling metabolic engineering of fungal species. For example, genetic modification of yeast species[231]—which are easy to grow at fast rates in large fermentation vessels—has opened up ways of pharmaceutical production that are potentially more efficient than production by the original source organisms.[232] Fungi-based industries are sometimes considered to be a major part of a growing bioeconomy, with applications under research and development including use for textiles, meat substitution and general fungal biotechnology.[233][234][235][236][237]

Therapeutic uses

Modern chemotherapeutics

 
The mold Penicillium rubens was the source of penicillin G.[238]

Many species produce metabolites that are major sources of pharmacologically active drugs.

Antibiotics

Particularly important are the antibiotics, including the penicillins, a structurally related group of β-lactam antibiotics that are synthesized from small peptides. Although naturally occurring penicillins such as penicillin G (produced by Penicillium chrysogenum) have a relatively narrow spectrum of biological activity, a wide range of other penicillins can be produced by chemical modification of the natural penicillins. Modern penicillins are semisynthetic compounds, obtained initially from fermentation cultures, but then structurally altered for specific desirable properties.[239] Other antibiotics produced by fungi include: ciclosporin, commonly used as an immunosuppressant during transplant surgery; and fusidic acid, used to help control infection from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria.[240] Widespread use of antibiotics for the treatment of bacterial diseases, such as tuberculosis, syphilis, leprosy, and others began in the early 20th century and continues to date. In nature, antibiotics of fungal or bacterial origin appear to play a dual role: at high concentrations they act as chemical defense against competition with other microorganisms in species-rich environments, such as the rhizosphere, and at low concentrations as quorum-sensing molecules for intra- or interspecies signaling.[241]

Other

Other drugs produced by fungi include griseofulvin isolated from Penicillium griseofulvum, used to treat fungal infections,[242] and statins (HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors), used to inhibit cholesterol synthesis. Examples of statins found in fungi include mevastatin from Penicillium citrinum and lovastatin from Aspergillus terreus and the oyster mushroom.[243] Psilocybin from fungi is investigated for therapeutic use and appears to cause global increases in brain network integration.[244] Fungi produce compounds that inhibit viruses[245][246] and cancer cells.[247] Specific metabolites, such as polysaccharide-K, ergotamine, and β-lactam antibiotics, are routinely used in clinical medicine. The shiitake mushroom is a source of lentinan, a clinical drug approved for use in cancer treatments in several countries, including Japan.[248][249] In Europe and Japan, polysaccharide-K (brand name Krestin), a chemical derived from Trametes versicolor, is an approved adjuvant for cancer therapy.[250]

Traditional medicine

 
 
The fungi Ganoderma lucidum (left) and Ophiocordyceps sinensis (right) are used in traditional medicine practices

Certain mushrooms are used as supposed therapeutics in folk medicine practices, such as traditional Chinese medicine. Mushrooms with a history of such use include Agaricus subrufescens,[247][251] Ganoderma lucidum,[252] and Ophiocordyceps sinensis.[253]

Cultured foods

Baker's yeast or Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a unicellular fungus, is used to make bread and other wheat-based products, such as pizza dough and dumplings.[254] Yeast species of the genus Saccharomyces are also used to produce alcoholic beverages through fermentation.[255] Shoyu koji mold (Aspergillus oryzae) is an essential ingredient in brewing Shoyu (soy sauce) and sake, and the preparation of miso,[256] while Rhizopus species are used for making tempeh.[257] Several of these fungi are domesticated species that were bred or selected according to their capacity to ferment food without producing harmful mycotoxins (see below), which are produced by very closely related Aspergilli.[258] Quorn, a meat substitute, is made from Fusarium venenatum.[259]

In food

 
A selection of edible mushrooms eaten in Asia

Edible mushrooms include commercially raised and wild-harvested fungi. Agaricus bisporus, sold as button mushrooms when small or Portobello mushrooms when larger, is the most widely cultivated species in the West, used in salads, soups, and many other dishes. Many Asian fungi are commercially grown and have increased in popularity in the West. They are often available fresh in grocery stores and markets, including straw mushrooms (Volvariella volvacea), oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus), shiitakes (Lentinula edodes), and enokitake (Flammulina spp.).[260]

Many other mushroom species are harvested from the wild for personal consumption or commercial sale. Milk mushrooms, morels, chanterelles, truffles, black trumpets, and porcini mushrooms (Boletus edulis) (also known as king boletes) demand a high price on the market. They are often used in gourmet dishes.[261]

Certain types of cheeses require inoculation of milk curds with fungal species that impart a unique flavor and texture to the cheese. Examples include the blue color in cheeses such as Stilton or Roquefort, which are made by inoculation with Penicillium roqueforti.[262] Molds used in cheese production are non-toxic and are thus safe for human consumption; however, mycotoxins (e.g., aflatoxins, roquefortine C, patulin, or others) may accumulate because of growth of other fungi during cheese ripening or storage.[263]

Poisonous fungi

 
Amanita phalloides accounts for the majority of fatal mushroom poisonings worldwide. It sometimes lacks the greenish color seen here.

Many mushroom species are poisonous to humans and cause a range of reactions including slight digestive problems, allergic reactions, hallucinations, severe organ failure, and death. Genera with mushrooms containing deadly toxins include Conocybe, Galerina, Lepiota and the most infamous, Amanita.[264] The latter genus includes the destroying angel (A. virosa) and the death cap (A. phalloides), the most common cause of deadly mushroom poisoning.[265] The false morel (Gyromitra esculenta) is occasionally considered a delicacy when cooked, yet can be highly toxic when eaten raw.[266] Tricholoma equestre was considered edible until it was implicated in serious poisonings causing rhabdomyolysis.[267] Fly agaric mushrooms (Amanita muscaria) also cause occasional non-fatal poisonings, mostly as a result of ingestion for its hallucinogenic properties. Historically, fly agaric was used by different peoples in Europe and Asia and its present usage for religious or shamanic purposes is reported from some ethnic groups such as the Koryak people of northeastern Siberia.[268]

As it is difficult to accurately identify a safe mushroom without proper training and knowledge, it is often advised to assume that a wild mushroom is poisonous and not to consume it.[269][270]

Pest control

 
Grasshoppers killed by Beauveria bassiana

In agriculture, fungi may be useful if they actively compete for nutrients and space with pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria or other fungi via the competitive exclusion principle,[271] or if they are parasites of these pathogens. For example, certain species eliminate or suppress the growth of harmful plant pathogens, such as insects, mites, weeds, nematodes, and other fungi that cause diseases of important crop plants.[272] This has generated strong interest in practical applications that use these fungi in the biological control of these agricultural pests. Entomopathogenic fungi can be used as biopesticides, as they actively kill insects.[273] Examples that have been used as biological insecticides are Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium spp., Hirsutella spp., Paecilomyces (Isaria) spp., and Lecanicillium lecanii.[274][275] Endophytic fungi of grasses of the genus Epichloë, such as E. coenophiala, produce alkaloids that are toxic to a range of invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores. These alkaloids protect grass plants from herbivory, but several endophyte alkaloids can poison grazing animals, such as cattle and sheep.[276] Infecting cultivars of pasture or forage grasses with Epichloë endophytes is one approach being used in grass breeding programs; the fungal strains are selected for producing only alkaloids that increase resistance to herbivores such as insects, while being non-toxic to livestock.[277][278]

Bioremediation

Certain fungi, in particular white-rot fungi, can degrade insecticides, herbicides, pentachlorophenol, creosote, coal tars, and heavy fuels and turn them into carbon dioxide, water, and basic elements.[279] Fungi have been shown to biomineralize uranium oxides, suggesting they may have application in the bioremediation of radioactively polluted sites.[280][281][282]

Model organisms

Several pivotal discoveries in biology were made by researchers using fungi as model organisms, that is, fungi that grow and sexually reproduce rapidly in the laboratory. For example, the one gene-one enzyme hypothesis was formulated by scientists using the bread mold Neurospora crassa to test their biochemical theories.[283] Other important model fungi are Aspergillus nidulans and the yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Schizosaccharomyces pombe, each of which with a long history of use to investigate issues in eukaryotic cell biology and genetics, such as cell cycle regulation, chromatin structure, and gene regulation. Other fungal models have emerged that address specific biological questions relevant to medicine, plant pathology, and industrial uses; examples include Candida albicans, a dimorphic, opportunistic human pathogen,[284] Magnaporthe grisea, a plant pathogen,[285] and Pichia pastoris, a yeast widely used for eukaryotic protein production.[286]

Others

Fungi are used extensively to produce industrial chemicals like citric, gluconic, lactic, and malic acids,[287] and industrial enzymes, such as lipases used in biological detergents,[288] cellulases used in making cellulosic ethanol[289] and stonewashed jeans,[290] and amylases,[291] invertases, proteases and xylanases.[292]


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Fungi redirects here For other uses see Fungi disambiguation For the radio station see Fungus XM A fungus PL fungi 2 or funguses 3 is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds as well as the more familiar mushrooms These organisms are classified as a kingdom 4 separately from the other eukaryotic kingdoms which by one traditional classification include Plantae Animalia Protozoa and Chromista FungiTemporal range Early Devonian Present but see text 410 0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg NClockwise from top left Amanita muscaria a basidiomycete Sarcoscypha coccinea an ascomycete bread covered in mold a chytrid an Aspergillus conidiophore Scientific classification unranked Obazoa unranked OpisthokontaClade HolomycotaKingdom Fungi L R T Moore 1 Subkingdoms PhylaRozellomyceta Rozellomycota Microsporidia Aphelidiomyceta Aphelidiomycota Eumycota Chytridiomyceta Neocallimastigomycota Chytridiomycota Blastocladiomyceta Blastocladiomycota Zoopagomyceta Basidiobolomycota Entomophthoromycota Kickxellomycota Mortierellomycota Mucoromyceta Calcarisporiellomycota Mucoromycota Symbiomycota Glomeromycota Entorrhizomycota Dikarya Basidiomycota AscomycotaA characteristic that places fungi in a different kingdom from plants bacteria and some protists is chitin in their cell walls Fungi like animals are heterotrophs they acquire their food by absorbing dissolved molecules typically by secreting digestive enzymes into their environment Fungi do not photosynthesize Growth is their means of mobility except for spores a few of which are flagellated which may travel through the air or water Fungi are the principal decomposers in ecological systems These and other differences place fungi in a single group of related organisms named the Eumycota true fungi or Eumycetes that share a common ancestor i e they form a monophyletic group an interpretation that is also strongly supported by molecular phylogenetics This fungal group is distinct from the structurally similar myxomycetes slime molds and oomycetes water molds The discipline of biology devoted to the study of fungi is known as mycology from the Greek mykhs code ell promoted to code el mykes mushroom In the past mycology was regarded as a branch of botany although it is now known fungi are genetically more closely related to animals than to plants Abundant worldwide most fungi are inconspicuous because of the small size of their structures and their cryptic lifestyles in soil or on dead matter Fungi include symbionts of plants animals or other fungi and also parasites They may become noticeable when fruiting either as mushrooms or as molds Fungi perform an essential role in the decomposition of organic matter and have fundamental roles in nutrient cycling and exchange in the environment They have long been used as a direct source of human food in the form of mushrooms and truffles as a leavening agent for bread and in the fermentation of various food products such as wine beer and soy sauce Since the 1940s fungi have been used for the production of antibiotics and more recently various enzymes produced by fungi are used industrially and in detergents Fungi are also used as biological pesticides to control weeds plant diseases and insect pests Many species produce bioactive compounds called mycotoxins such as alkaloids and polyketides that are toxic to animals including humans The fruiting structures of a few species contain psychotropic compounds and are consumed recreationally or in traditional spiritual ceremonies Fungi can break down manufactured materials and buildings and become significant pathogens of humans and other animals Losses of crops due to fungal diseases e g rice blast disease or food spoilage can have a large impact on human food supplies and local economies The fungus kingdom encompasses an enormous diversity of taxa with varied ecologies life cycle strategies and morphologies ranging from unicellular aquatic chytrids to large mushrooms However little is known of the true biodiversity of the fungus kingdom which has been estimated at 2 2 million to 3 8 million species 5 Of these only about 148 000 have been described 6 with over 8 000 species known to be detrimental to plants and at least 300 that can be pathogenic to humans 7 Ever since the pioneering 18th and 19th century taxonomical works of Carl Linnaeus Christiaan Hendrik Persoon and Elias Magnus Fries fungi have been classified according to their morphology e g characteristics such as spore color or microscopic features or physiology Advances in molecular genetics have opened the way for DNA analysis to be incorporated into taxonomy which has sometimes challenged the historical groupings based on morphology and other traits Phylogenetic studies published in the first decade of the 21st century have helped reshape the classification within the fungi kingdom which is divided into one subkingdom seven phyla and ten subphyla Contents 1 Etymology 2 Characteristics 3 Diversity 4 Mycology 4 1 History 5 Morphology 5 1 Microscopic structures 5 2 Macroscopic structures 6 Growth and physiology 7 Reproduction 7 1 Asexual reproduction 7 2 Sexual reproduction 7 3 Spore dispersal 7 4 Homothallism 7 5 Other sexual processes 8 Evolution 9 Taxonomy 9 1 Taxonomic groups 9 2 Fungus like organisms 10 Ecology 10 1 Symbiosis 10 1 1 With plants 10 1 2 With algae and cyanobacteria 10 1 3 With insects 10 1 4 As pathogens and parasites 10 1 5 As targets of mycoparasites 10 2 Communication 11 Mycotoxins 12 Pathogenic mechanisms 13 Human use 13 1 Therapeutic uses 13 1 1 Modern chemotherapeutics 13 1 1 1 Antibiotics 13 1 1 2 Other 13 2 Traditional medicine 13 3 Cultured foods 13 4 In food 13 5 Poisonous fungi 13 6 Pest control 13 7 Bioremediation 13 8 Model organisms 13 9 Others 14 See also 15 References 15 1 Citations 15 2 Cited literature 16 External linksEtymologyThe English word fungus is directly adopted from the Latin fungus mushroom used in the writings of Horace and Pliny 8 This in turn is derived from the Greek word sphongos sfoggos sponge which refers to the macroscopic structures and morphology of mushrooms and molds 9 the root is also used in other languages such as the German Schwamm sponge and Schimmel mold 10 The word mycology is derived from the Greek mykes mykhs mushroom and logos logos discourse 11 It denotes the scientific study of fungi The Latin adjectival form of mycology mycologicae appeared as early as 1796 in a book on the subject by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon 12 The word appeared in English as early as 1824 in a book by Robert Kaye Greville 13 In 1836 the English naturalist Miles Joseph Berkeley s publication The English Flora of Sir James Edward Smith Vol 5 also refers to mycology as the study of fungi 9 14 A group of all the fungi present in a particular region is known as mycobiota plural noun no singular 15 The term mycota is often used for this purpose but many authors use it as a synonym of Fungi The word funga has been proposed as a less ambiguous term morphologically similar to fauna and flora 16 The Species Survival Commission SSC of the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN in August 2021 asked that the phrase fauna and flora be replaced by fauna flora and funga 17 Characteristics Fungal hyphae cells Hyphal wallSeptumMitochondrionVacuoleErgosterol crystalRibosomeNucleusEndoplasmic reticulumLipid bodyPlasma membraneSpitzenkorperGolgi apparatus Fungal cell cycle showing Dikaryons typical of Higher Fungi Before the introduction of molecular methods for phylogenetic analysis taxonomists considered fungi to be members of the plant kingdom because of similarities in lifestyle both fungi and plants are mainly immobile and have similarities in general morphology and growth habitat Although inaccurate the common misconception that fungi are plants persists among the general public due to their historical classification as well as several similarities 18 19 Like plants fungi often grow in soil and in the case of mushrooms form conspicuous fruit bodies which sometimes resemble plants such as mosses The fungi are now considered a separate kingdom distinct from both plants and animals from which they appear to have diverged around one billion years ago around the start of the Neoproterozoic Era 20 21 Some morphological biochemical and genetic features are shared with other organisms while others are unique to the fungi clearly separating them from the other kingdoms Shared features With other eukaryotes Fungal cells contain membrane bound nuclei with chromosomes that contain DNA with noncoding regions called introns and coding regions called exons Fungi have membrane bound cytoplasmic organelles such as mitochondria sterol containing membranes and ribosomes of the 80S type 22 They have a characteristic range of soluble carbohydrates and storage compounds including sugar alcohols e g mannitol disaccharides e g trehalose and polysaccharides e g glycogen which is also found in animals 23 With animals Fungi lack chloroplasts and are heterotrophic organisms and so require preformed organic compounds as energy sources 24 With plants Fungi have a cell wall 25 and vacuoles 26 They reproduce by both sexual and asexual means and like basal plant groups such as ferns and mosses produce spores Similar to mosses and algae fungi typically have haploid nuclei 27 With euglenoids and bacteria Higher fungi euglenoids and some bacteria produce the amino acid L lysine in specific biosynthesis steps called the a aminoadipate pathway 28 29 The cells of most fungi grow as tubular elongated and thread like filamentous structures called hyphae which may contain multiple nuclei and extend by growing at their tips Each tip contains a set of aggregated vesicles cellular structures consisting of proteins lipids and other organic molecules called the Spitzenkorper 30 Both fungi and oomycetes grow as filamentous hyphal cells 31 In contrast similar looking organisms such as filamentous green algae grow by repeated cell division within a chain of cells 23 There are also single celled fungi yeasts that do not form hyphae and some fungi have both hyphal and yeast forms 32 In common with some plant and animal species more than 70 fungal species display bioluminescence 33 Unique features Some species grow as unicellular yeasts that reproduce by budding or fission Dimorphic fungi can switch between a yeast phase and a hyphal phase in response to environmental conditions 32 The fungal cell wall is made of a chitin glucan complex while glucans are also found in plants and chitin in the exoskeleton of arthropods 34 fungi are the only organisms that combine these two structural molecules in their cell wall Unlike those of plants and oomycetes fungal cell walls do not contain cellulose 35 36 Omphalotus nidiformis a bioluminescent mushroom Most fungi lack an efficient system for the long distance transport of water and nutrients such as the xylem and phloem in many plants To overcome this limitation some fungi such as Armillaria form rhizomorphs 37 which resemble and perform functions similar to the roots of plants As eukaryotes fungi possess a biosynthetic pathway for producing terpenes that uses mevalonic acid and pyrophosphate as chemical building blocks 38 Plants and some other organisms have an additional terpene biosynthesis pathway in their chloroplasts a structure that fungi and animals do not have 39 Fungi produce several secondary metabolites that are similar or identical in structure to those made by plants 38 Many of the plant and fungal enzymes that make these compounds differ from each other in sequence and other characteristics which indicates separate origins and convergent evolution of these enzymes in the fungi and plants 38 40 Diversity Bracket fungi on a tree stump Fungi have a worldwide distribution and grow in a wide range of habitats including extreme environments such as deserts or areas with high salt concentrations 41 or ionizing radiation 42 as well as in deep sea sediments 43 Some can survive the intense UV and cosmic radiation encountered during space travel 44 Most grow in terrestrial environments though several species live partly or solely in aquatic habitats such as the chytrid fungi Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and B salamandrivorans parasites that have been responsible for a worldwide decline in amphibian populations These organisms spend part of their life cycle as a motile zoospore enabling them to propel itself through water and enter their amphibian host 45 Other examples of aquatic fungi include those living in hydrothermal areas of the ocean 46 Widespread white fungus in wood chip mulch in an Oklahoma garden 47 As of 2020 around 148 000 species of fungi have been described by taxonomists 6 but the global biodiversity of the fungus kingdom is not fully understood 48 A 2017 estimate suggests there may be between 2 2 and 3 8 million species 5 The number of new fungi species discovered yearly has increased from 1 000 to 1 500 per year about 10 years ago to about 2000 with a peak of more than 2 500 species in 2016 In the year 2019 1882 new species of fungi were described and it was estimated that more than 90 of fungi remain unknown 6 The following year 2905 new species were described the highest annual record of new fungus names 49 In mycology species have historically been distinguished by a variety of methods and concepts Classification based on morphological characteristics such as the size and shape of spores or fruiting structures has traditionally dominated fungal taxonomy 50 Species may also be distinguished by their biochemical and physiological characteristics such as their ability to metabolize certain biochemicals or their reaction to chemical tests The biological species concept discriminates species based on their ability to mate The application of molecular tools such as DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis to study diversity has greatly enhanced the resolution and added robustness to estimates of genetic diversity within various taxonomic groups 51 Mycology In 1729 Pier Antonio Micheli first published descriptions of fungi Mycology is the branch of biology concerned with the systematic study of fungi including their genetic and biochemical properties their taxonomy and their use to humans as a source of medicine food and psychotropic substances consumed for religious purposes as well as their dangers such as poisoning or infection The field of phytopathology the study of plant diseases is closely related because many plant pathogens are fungi 52 The use of fungi by humans dates back to prehistory Otzi the Iceman a well preserved mummy of a 5 300 year old Neolithic man found frozen in the Austrian Alps carried two species of polypore mushrooms that may have been used as tinder Fomes fomentarius or for medicinal purposes Piptoporus betulinus 53 Ancient peoples have used fungi as food sources often unknowingly for millennia in the preparation of leavened bread and fermented juices Some of the oldest written records contain references to the destruction of crops that were probably caused by pathogenic fungi 54 History Mycology became a systematic science after the development of the microscope in the 17th century Although fungal spores were first observed by Giambattista della Porta in 1588 the seminal work in the development of mycology is considered to be the publication of Pier Antonio Micheli s 1729 work Nova plantarum genera 55 Micheli not only observed spores but also showed that under the proper conditions they could be induced into growing into the same species of fungi from which they originated 56 Extending the use of the binomial system of nomenclature introduced by Carl Linnaeus in his Species plantarum 1753 the Dutch Christiaan Hendrik Persoon 1761 1836 established the first classification of mushrooms with such skill as to be considered a founder of modern mycology Later Elias Magnus Fries 1794 1878 further elaborated the classification of fungi using spore color and microscopic characteristics methods still used by taxonomists today Other notable early contributors to mycology in the 17th 19th and early 20th centuries include Miles Joseph Berkeley August Carl Joseph Corda Anton de Bary the brothers Louis Rene and Charles Tulasne Arthur H R Buller Curtis G Lloyd and Pier Andrea Saccardo In the 20th and 21st centuries advances in biochemistry genetics molecular biology biotechnology DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis has provided new insights into fungal relationships and biodiversity and has challenged traditional morphology based groupings in fungal taxonomy 57 MorphologyMicroscopic structures An environmental isolate of Penicillium HyphaConidiophorePhialideConidiaSepta Most fungi grow as hyphae which are cylindrical thread like structures 2 10 µm in diameter and up to several centimeters in length Hyphae grow at their tips apices new hyphae are typically formed by emergence of new tips along existing hyphae by a process called branching or occasionally growing hyphal tips fork giving rise to two parallel growing hyphae 58 Hyphae also sometimes fuse when they come into contact a process called hyphal fusion or anastomosis These growth processes lead to the development of a mycelium an interconnected network of hyphae 32 Hyphae can be either septate or coenocytic Septate hyphae are divided into compartments separated by cross walls internal cell walls called septa that are formed at right angles to the cell wall giving the hypha its shape with each compartment containing one or more nuclei coenocytic hyphae are not compartmentalized 59 Septa have pores that allow cytoplasm organelles and sometimes nuclei to pass through an example is the dolipore septum in fungi of the phylum Basidiomycota 60 Coenocytic hyphae are in essence multinucleate supercells 61 Many species have developed specialized hyphal structures for nutrient uptake from living hosts examples include haustoria in plant parasitic species of most fungal phyla 62 and arbuscules of several mycorrhizal fungi which penetrate into the host cells to consume nutrients 63 Although fungi are opisthokonts a grouping of evolutionarily related organisms broadly characterized by a single posterior flagellum all phyla except for the chytrids have lost their posterior flagella 64 Fungi are unusual among the eukaryotes in having a cell wall that in addition to glucans e g b 1 3 glucan and other typical components also contains the biopolymer chitin 36 Macroscopic structures Armillaria solidipes Fungal mycelia can become visible to the naked eye for example on various surfaces and substrates such as damp walls and spoiled food where they are commonly called molds Mycelia grown on solid agar media in laboratory petri dishes are usually referred to as colonies These colonies can exhibit growth shapes and colors due to spores or pigmentation that can be used as diagnostic features in the identification of species or groups 65 Some individual fungal colonies can reach extraordinary dimensions and ages as in the case of a clonal colony of Armillaria solidipes which extends over an area of more than 900 ha 3 5 square miles with an estimated age of nearly 9 000 years 66 The apothecium a specialized structure important in sexual reproduction in the ascomycetes is a cup shaped fruit body that is often macroscopic and holds the hymenium a layer of tissue containing the spore bearing cells 67 The fruit bodies of the basidiomycetes basidiocarps and some ascomycetes can sometimes grow very large and many are well known as mushrooms Growth and physiology Mold growth covering a decaying peach The frames were taken approximately 12 hours apart over a period of six days The growth of fungi as hyphae on or in solid substrates or as single cells in aquatic environments is adapted for the efficient extraction of nutrients because these growth forms have high surface area to volume ratios 68 Hyphae are specifically adapted for growth on solid surfaces and to invade substrates and tissues 69 They can exert large penetrative mechanical forces for example many plant pathogens including Magnaporthe grisea form a structure called an appressorium that evolved to puncture plant tissues 70 The pressure generated by the appressorium directed against the plant epidermis can exceed 8 megapascals 1 200 psi 70 The filamentous fungus Paecilomyces lilacinus uses a similar structure to penetrate the eggs of nematodes 71 The mechanical pressure exerted by the appressorium is generated from physiological processes that increase intracellular turgor by producing osmolytes such as glycerol 72 Adaptations such as these are complemented by hydrolytic enzymes secreted into the environment to digest large organic molecules such as polysaccharides proteins and lipids into smaller molecules that may then be absorbed as nutrients 73 74 75 The vast majority of filamentous fungi grow in a polar fashion extending in one direction by elongation at the tip apex of the hypha 76 Other forms of fungal growth include intercalary extension longitudinal expansion of hyphal compartments that are below the apex as in the case of some endophytic fungi 77 or growth by volume expansion during the development of mushroom stipes and other large organs 78 Growth of fungi as multicellular structures consisting of somatic and reproductive cells a feature independently evolved in animals and plants 79 has several functions including the development of fruit bodies for dissemination of sexual spores see above and biofilms for substrate colonization and intercellular communication 80 The fungi are traditionally considered heterotrophs organisms that rely solely on carbon fixed by other organisms for metabolism Fungi have evolved a high degree of metabolic versatility that allows them to use a diverse range of organic substrates for growth including simple compounds such as nitrate ammonia acetate or ethanol 81 82 In some species the pigment melanin may play a role in extracting energy from ionizing radiation such as gamma radiation This form of radiotrophic growth has been described for only a few species the effects on growth rates are small and the underlying biophysical and biochemical processes are not well known 42 This process might bear similarity to CO2 fixation via visible light but instead uses ionizing radiation as a source of energy 83 Reproduction Polyporus squamosus Fungal reproduction is complex reflecting the differences in lifestyles and genetic makeup within this diverse kingdom of organisms 84 It is estimated that a third of all fungi reproduce using more than one method of propagation for example reproduction may occur in two well differentiated stages within the life cycle of a species the teleomorph sexual reproduction and the anamorph asexual reproduction 85 Environmental conditions trigger genetically determined developmental states that lead to the creation of specialized structures for sexual or asexual reproduction These structures aid reproduction by efficiently dispersing spores or spore containing propagules Asexual reproduction Asexual reproduction occurs via vegetative spores conidia or through mycelial fragmentation Mycelial fragmentation occurs when a fungal mycelium separates into pieces and each component grows into a separate mycelium Mycelial fragmentation and vegetative spores maintain clonal populations adapted to a specific niche and allow more rapid dispersal than sexual reproduction 86 The Fungi imperfecti fungi lacking the perfect or sexual stage or Deuteromycota comprise all the species that lack an observable sexual cycle 87 Deuteromycota alternatively known as Deuteromycetes conidial fungi or mitosporic fungi is not an accepted taxonomic clade and is now taken to mean simply fungi that lack a known sexual stage 88 Sexual reproduction See also Mating in fungi and Sexual selection in fungi Sexual reproduction with meiosis has been directly observed in all fungal phyla except Glomeromycota 89 genetic analysis suggests meiosis in Glomeromycota as well It differs in many aspects from sexual reproduction in animals or plants Differences also exist between fungal groups and can be used to discriminate species by morphological differences in sexual structures and reproductive strategies 90 91 Mating experiments between fungal isolates may identify species on the basis of biological species concepts 91 The major fungal groupings have initially been delineated based on the morphology of their sexual structures and spores for example the spore containing structures asci and basidia can be used in the identification of ascomycetes and basidiomycetes respectively Fungi employ two mating systems heterothallic species allow mating only between individuals of the opposite mating type whereas homothallic species can mate and sexually reproduce with any other individual or itself 92 Most fungi have both a haploid and a diploid stage in their life cycles In sexually reproducing fungi compatible individuals may combine by fusing their hyphae together into an interconnected network this process anastomosis is required for the initiation of the sexual cycle Many ascomycetes and basidiomycetes go through a dikaryotic stage in which the nuclei inherited from the two parents do not combine immediately after cell fusion but remain separate in the hyphal cells see heterokaryosis 93 The 8 spore asci of Morchella elata viewed with phase contrast microscopy In ascomycetes dikaryotic hyphae of the hymenium the spore bearing tissue layer form a characteristic hook crozier at the hyphal septum During cell division the formation of the hook ensures proper distribution of the newly divided nuclei into the apical and basal hyphal compartments An ascus plural asci is then formed in which karyogamy nuclear fusion occurs Asci are embedded in an ascocarp or fruiting body Karyogamy in the asci is followed immediately by meiosis and the production of ascospores After dispersal the ascospores may germinate and form a new haploid mycelium 94 Sexual reproduction in basidiomycetes is similar to that of the ascomycetes Compatible haploid hyphae fuse to produce a dikaryotic mycelium However the dikaryotic phase is more extensive in the basidiomycetes often also present in the vegetatively growing mycelium A specialized anatomical structure called a clamp connection is formed at each hyphal septum As with the structurally similar hook in the ascomycetes the clamp connection in the basidiomycetes is required for controlled transfer of nuclei during cell division to maintain the dikaryotic stage with two genetically different nuclei in each hyphal compartment 95 A basidiocarp is formed in which club like structures known as basidia generate haploid basidiospores after karyogamy and meiosis 96 The most commonly known basidiocarps are mushrooms but they may also take other forms see Morphology section In fungi formerly classified as Zygomycota haploid hyphae of two individuals fuse forming a gametangium a specialized cell structure that becomes a fertile gamete producing cell The gametangium develops into a zygospore a thick walled spore formed by the union of gametes When the zygospore germinates it undergoes meiosis generating new haploid hyphae which may then form asexual sporangiospores These sporangiospores allow the fungus to rapidly disperse and germinate into new genetically identical haploid fungal mycelia 97 Spore dispersalThe spores of most of the researched species of fungi are transported by wind 98 99 Such species often produce dry or hydrophobic spores that do not absorb water and are readily scattered by raindrops for example 98 100 101 In other species both asexual and sexual spores or sporangiospores are often actively dispersed by forcible ejection from their reproductive structures This ejection ensures exit of the spores from the reproductive structures as well as traveling through the air over long distances The bird s nest fungus Cyathus stercoreusSpecialized mechanical and physiological mechanisms as well as spore surface structures such as hydrophobins enable efficient spore ejection 102 For example the structure of the spore bearing cells in some ascomycete species is such that the buildup of substances affecting cell volume and fluid balance enables the explosive discharge of spores into the air 103 The forcible discharge of single spores termed ballistospores involves formation of a small drop of water Buller s drop which upon contact with the spore leads to its projectile release with an initial acceleration of more than 10 000 g 104 the net result is that the spore is ejected 0 01 0 02 cm sufficient distance for it to fall through the gills or pores into the air below 105 Other fungi like the puffballs rely on alternative mechanisms for spore release such as external mechanical forces The hydnoid fungi tooth fungi produce spores on pendant tooth like or spine like projections 106 The bird s nest fungi use the force of falling water drops to liberate the spores from cup shaped fruiting bodies 107 Another strategy is seen in the stinkhorns a group of fungi with lively colors and putrid odor that attract insects to disperse their spores 108 Homothallism In homothallic sexual reproduction two haploid nuclei derived from the same individual fuse to form a zygote that can then undergo meiosis Homothallic fungi include species with an Aspergillus like asexual stage anamorphs occurring in numerous different genera 109 several species of the ascomycete genus Cochliobolus 110 and the ascomycete Pneumocystis jirovecii 111 The earliest mode of sexual reproduction among eukaryotes was likely homothallism that is self fertile unisexual reproduction 112 Other sexual processes Besides regular sexual reproduction with meiosis certain fungi such as those in the genera Penicillium and Aspergillus may exchange genetic material via parasexual processes initiated by anastomosis between hyphae and plasmogamy of fungal cells 113 The frequency and relative importance of parasexual events is unclear and may be lower than other sexual processes It is known to play a role in intraspecific hybridization 114 and is likely required for hybridization between species which has been associated with major events in fungal evolution 115 EvolutionMain article Evolution of fungi In contrast to plants and animals the early fossil record of the fungi is meager Factors that likely contribute to the under representation of fungal species among fossils include the nature of fungal fruiting bodies which are soft fleshy and easily degradable tissues and the microscopic dimensions of most fungal structures which therefore are not readily evident Fungal fossils are difficult to distinguish from those of other microbes and are most easily identified when they resemble extant fungi 116 Often recovered from a permineralized plant or animal host these samples are typically studied by making thin section preparations that can be examined with light microscopy or transmission electron microscopy 117 Researchers study compression fossils by dissolving the surrounding matrix with acid and then using light or scanning electron microscopy to examine surface details 118 Prototaxites milwaukeensis Penhallow 1908 a Middle Devonian fungus from Wisconsin The earliest fossils possessing features typical of fungi date to the Paleoproterozoic era some 2 400 million years ago Ma these multicellular benthic organisms had filamentous structures capable of anastomosis 119 Other studies 2009 estimate the arrival of fungal organisms at about 760 1060 Ma on the basis of comparisons of the rate of evolution in closely related groups 120 For much of the Paleozoic Era 542 251 Ma the fungi appear to have been aquatic and consisted of organisms similar to the extant chytrids in having flagellum bearing spores 121 The evolutionary adaptation from an aquatic to a terrestrial lifestyle necessitated a diversification of ecological strategies for obtaining nutrients including parasitism saprobism and the development of mutualistic relationships such as mycorrhiza and lichenization 122 Studies suggest that the ancestral ecological state of the Ascomycota was saprobism and that independent lichenization events have occurred multiple times 123 In May 2019 scientists reported the discovery of a fossilized fungus named Ourasphaira giraldae in the Canadian Arctic that may have grown on land a billion years ago well before plants were living on land 124 125 126 Pyritized fungus like microfossils preserved in the basal Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation 635 Ma have been reported in South China 127 Earlier it had been presumed that the fungi colonized the land during the Cambrian 542 488 3 Ma also long before land plants 128 Fossilized hyphae and spores recovered from the Ordovician of Wisconsin 460 Ma resemble modern day Glomerales and existed at a time when the land flora likely consisted of only non vascular bryophyte like plants 129 Prototaxites which was probably a fungus or lichen would have been the tallest organism of the late Silurian and early Devonian Fungal fossils do not become common and uncontroversial until the early Devonian 416 359 2 Ma when they occur abundantly in the Rhynie chert mostly as Zygomycota and Chytridiomycota 128 130 131 At about this same time approximately 400 Ma the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota diverged 132 and all modern classes of fungi were present by the Late Carboniferous Pennsylvanian 318 1 299 Ma 133 Lichens formed a component of the early terrestrial ecosystems and the estimated age of the oldest terrestrial lichen fossil is 415 Ma 134 this date roughly corresponds to the age of the oldest known sporocarp fossil a Paleopyrenomycites species found in the Rhynie Chert 135 The oldest fossil with microscopic features resembling modern day basidiomycetes is Palaeoancistrus found permineralized with a fern from the Pennsylvanian 136 Rare in the fossil record are the Homobasidiomycetes a taxon roughly equivalent to the mushroom producing species of the Agaricomycetes Two amber preserved specimens provide evidence that the earliest known mushroom forming fungi the extinct species Archaeomarasmius leggetti appeared during the late Cretaceous 90 Ma 137 138 Some time after the Permian Triassic extinction event 251 4 Ma a fungal spike originally thought to be an extraordinary abundance of fungal spores in sediments formed suggesting that fungi were the dominant life form at this time representing nearly 100 of the available fossil record for this period 139 However the relative proportion of fungal spores relative to spores formed by algal species is difficult to assess 140 the spike did not appear worldwide 141 142 and in many places it did not fall on the Permian Triassic boundary 143 Sixty five million years ago immediately after the Cretaceous Paleogene extinction event that famously killed off most dinosaurs there was a dramatic increase in evidence of fungi apparently the death of most plant and animal species led to a huge fungal bloom like a massive compost heap 144 TaxonomyAlthough commonly included in botany curricula and textbooks fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants and are placed with the animals in the monophyletic group of opisthokonts 145 Analyses using molecular phylogenetics support a monophyletic origin of fungi 51 146 The taxonomy of fungi is in a state of constant flux especially due to research based on DNA comparisons These current phylogenetic analyses often overturn classifications based on older and sometimes less discriminative methods based on morphological features and biological species concepts obtained from experimental matings 147 There is no unique generally accepted system at the higher taxonomic levels and there are frequent name changes at every level from species upwards Efforts among researchers are now underway to establish and encourage usage of a unified and more consistent nomenclature 51 148 Until relatively recent 2012 changes to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae fungi and plants fungal species could also have multiple scientific names depending on their life cycle and mode sexual or asexual of reproduction 149 Web sites such as Index Fungorum and MycoBank are officially recognized nomenclatural repositories and list current names of fungal species with cross references to older synonyms 150 The 2007 classification of Kingdom Fungi is the result of a large scale collaborative research effort involving dozens of mycologists and other scientists working on fungal taxonomy 51 It recognizes seven phyla two of which the Ascomycota and the Basidiomycota are contained within a branch representing subkingdom Dikarya the most species rich and familiar group including all the mushrooms most food spoilage molds most plant pathogenic fungi and the beer wine and bread yeasts The accompanying cladogram depicts the major fungal taxa and their relationship to opisthokont and unikont organisms based on the work of Philippe Silar 151 The Mycota A Comprehensive Treatise on Fungi as Experimental Systems for Basic and Applied Research 152 and Tedersoo et al 2018 153 The lengths of the branches are not proportional to evolutionary distances Zoosporia Rozellomyceta Rozellomycota RozellomycetesMicrosporidiomycota MitosporidiumParamicrosporidiumNucleophagaMetchnikovelleaMicrosporeaAphelidiomyceta Aphelidiomycota AphelidiomycetesEumycota Chytridiomyceta Neocallimastigomycota NeocallimastigomycetesChytridiomycota Monoblepharomycotina HyaloraphidiomycetesMonoblepharidomycetesSanchytriomycetesChytridiomycotina MesochytriomycetesChytridiomycetesBlastocladiomyceta Blastocladiomycota BlastocladiomycetesPhysodermatomycetesAmastigomycota Zoopagomyceta Basidiobolomycota BasidiobolomycetesOlpidiomycetesEntomophthoromycota NeozygitomycetesEntomophthoromycetesKickxellomycota Zoopagomycotina ZoopagomycetesKickxellomycotina DimargaritomycetesKickxellomycetesMortierellomycota MortierellomycetesMucoromyceta Calcarisporiellomycota CalcarisporiellomycetesMucoromycota UmbelopsidomycetesMucoromycetesSymbiomycota Glomeromycota ParaglomeromycetesArchaeosporomycetesGlomeromycetesDikarya Entorrhizomycota EntorrhizomycetesBasidiomycotaAscomycotaBasidiomycota Pucciniomycotina TritirachiomycetesMixiomycetesAgaricostilbomycetesCystobasidiomycetesClassiculaceaeMicrobotryomycetesCryptomycocolacomycetesAtractiellomycetesPucciniomycetesOrthomycotina Ustilaginomycotina MonilielliomycetesMalasseziomycetesUstilaginomycetesExobasidiomycetesAgaricomycotina Geminibasidiomycetes WallemiomycetesBartheletiomycetesTremellomycetesDacrymycetesAgaricomycetesAscomycota Taphrinomycotina NeolectomycetesTaphrinomycetesSchizosaccharomyceta ArchaeorhizomycetesPneumocystidomycetesSchizosaccharomycetesSaccharomyceta Saccharomycotina SaccharomycetesPezizomycotina Thelocarpales Vezdaeales Lahmiales TriblidialesOrbiliomycetesPezizomycetesLeotiomyceta Sordariomyceta XylonomycetesGeoglossomycetesLeotiomycetesLaboulbeniomycetesSordariomycetesDothideomyceta ConiocybomycetesLichinomycetesEurotiomycetesLecanoromycetesCollemopsidiomycetesArthoniomycetesDothideomycetesTaxonomic groups See also List of fungal orders Main groups of fungi The major phyla sometimes called divisions of fungi have been classified mainly on the basis of characteristics of their sexual reproductive structures As of 2019 update nine major lineages have been identified Opisthosporidia Chytridiomycota Neocallimastigomycota Blastocladiomycota Zoopagomycota Mucoromycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota and Basidiomycota 154 Phylogenetic analysis has demonstrated that the Microsporidia unicellular parasites of animals and protists are fairly recent and highly derived endobiotic fungi living within the tissue of another species 121 Previously considered to be primitive protozoa they are now thought to be either a basal branch of the Fungi or a sister group each other s closest evolutionary relative 155 The Chytridiomycota are commonly known as chytrids These fungi are distributed worldwide Chytrids and their close relatives Neocallimastigomycota and Blastocladiomycota below are the only fungi with active motility producing zoospores that are capable of active movement through aqueous phases with a single flagellum leading early taxonomists to classify them as protists Molecular phylogenies inferred from rRNA sequences in ribosomes suggest that the Chytrids are a basal group divergent from the other fungal phyla consisting of four major clades with suggestive evidence for paraphyly or possibly polyphyly 156 The Blastocladiomycota were previously considered a taxonomic clade within the Chytridiomycota Molecular data and ultrastructural characteristics however place the Blastocladiomycota as a sister clade to the Zygomycota Glomeromycota and Dikarya Ascomycota and Basidiomycota The blastocladiomycetes are saprotrophs feeding on decomposing organic matter and they are parasites of all eukaryotic groups Unlike their close relatives the chytrids most of which exhibit zygotic meiosis the blastocladiomycetes undergo sporic meiosis 121 The Neocallimastigomycota were earlier placed in the phylum Chytridiomycota Members of this small phylum are anaerobic organisms living in the digestive system of larger herbivorous mammals and in other terrestrial and aquatic environments enriched in cellulose e g domestic waste landfill sites 157 They lack mitochondria but contain hydrogenosomes of mitochondrial origin As in the related chrytrids neocallimastigomycetes form zoospores that are posteriorly uniflagellate or polyflagellate 51 Arbuscular mycorrhiza seen under microscope Flax root cortical cells containing paired arbuscules Diagram of an apothecium the typical cup like reproductive structure of Ascomycetes showing sterile tissues as well as developing and mature asci Members of the Glomeromycota form arbuscular mycorrhizae a form of mutualist symbiosis wherein fungal hyphae invade plant root cells and both species benefit from the resulting increased supply of nutrients All known Glomeromycota species reproduce asexually 89 The symbiotic association between the Glomeromycota and plants is ancient with evidence dating to 400 million years ago 158 Formerly part of the Zygomycota commonly known as sugar and pin molds the Glomeromycota were elevated to phylum status in 2001 and now replace the older phylum Zygomycota 159 Fungi that were placed in the Zygomycota are now being reassigned to the Glomeromycota or the subphyla incertae sedis Mucoromycotina Kickxellomycotina the Zoopagomycotina and the Entomophthoromycotina 51 Some well known examples of fungi formerly in the Zygomycota include black bread mold Rhizopus stolonifer and Pilobolus species capable of ejecting spores several meters through the air 160 Medically relevant genera include Mucor Rhizomucor and Rhizopus 161 The Ascomycota commonly known as sac fungi or ascomycetes constitute the largest taxonomic group within the Eumycota 50 These fungi form meiotic spores called ascospores which are enclosed in a special sac like structure called an ascus This phylum includes morels a few mushrooms and truffles unicellular yeasts e g of the genera Saccharomyces Kluyveromyces Pichia and Candida and many filamentous fungi living as saprotrophs parasites and mutualistic symbionts e g lichens Prominent and important genera of filamentous ascomycetes include Aspergillus Penicillium Fusarium and Claviceps Many ascomycete species have only been observed undergoing asexual reproduction called anamorphic species but analysis of molecular data has often been able to identify their closest teleomorphs in the Ascomycota 162 Because the products of meiosis are retained within the sac like ascus ascomycetes have been used for elucidating principles of genetics and heredity e g Neurospora crassa 163 Members of the Basidiomycota commonly known as the club fungi or basidiomycetes produce meiospores called basidiospores on club like stalks called basidia Most common mushrooms belong to this group as well as rust and smut fungi which are major pathogens of grains Other important basidiomycetes include the maize pathogen Ustilago maydis 164 human commensal species of the genus Malassezia 165 and the opportunistic human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans 166 Fungus like organisms Because of similarities in morphology and lifestyle the slime molds mycetozoans plasmodiophorids acrasids Fonticula and labyrinthulids now in Amoebozoa Rhizaria Excavata Opisthokonta and Stramenopiles respectively water molds oomycetes and hyphochytrids both Stramenopiles were formerly classified in the kingdom Fungi in groups like Mastigomycotina Gymnomycota and Phycomycetes The slime molds were studied also as protozoans leading to an ambiregnal duplicated taxonomy 167 Unlike true fungi the cell walls of oomycetes contain cellulose and lack chitin Hyphochytrids have both chitin and cellulose Slime molds lack a cell wall during the assimilative phase except labyrinthulids which have a wall of scales and take in nutrients by ingestion phagocytosis except labyrinthulids rather than absorption osmotrophy as fungi labyrinthulids oomycetes and hyphochytrids Neither water molds nor slime molds are closely related to the true fungi and therefore taxonomists no longer group them in the kingdom Fungi Nonetheless studies of the oomycetes and myxomycetes are still often included in mycology textbooks and primary research literature 168 The Eccrinales and Amoebidiales are opisthokont protists previously thought to be zygomycete fungi Other groups now in Opisthokonta e g Corallochytrium Ichthyosporea were also at given time classified as fungi The genus Blastocystis now in Stramenopiles was originally classified as a yeast Ellobiopsis now in Alveolata was considered a chytrid The bacteria were also included in fungi in some classifications as the group Schizomycetes The Rozellida clade including the ex chytrid Rozella is a genetically disparate group known mostly from environmental DNA sequences that is a sister group to fungi 154 Members of the group that have been isolated lack the chitinous cell wall that is characteristic of fungi Alternatively Rozella can be classified as a basal fungal group 146 The nucleariids may be the next sister group to the eumycete clade and as such could be included in an expanded fungal kingdom 145 Many Actinomycetales Actinomycetota a group with many filamentous bacteria were also long believed to be fungi 169 170 Ecology A pin mold decomposing a peach Although often inconspicuous fungi occur in every environment on Earth and play very important roles in most ecosystems Along with bacteria fungi are the major decomposers in most terrestrial and some aquatic ecosystems and therefore play a critical role in biogeochemical cycles 171 and in many food webs As decomposers they play an essential role in nutrient cycling especially as saprotrophs and symbionts degrading organic matter to inorganic molecules which can then re enter anabolic metabolic pathways in plants or other organisms 172 173 Symbiosis Many fungi have important symbiotic relationships with organisms from most if not all kingdoms 174 175 176 These interactions can be mutualistic or antagonistic in nature or in the case of commensal fungi are of no apparent benefit or detriment to the host 177 178 179 With plants Mycorrhizal symbiosis between plants and fungi is one of the most well known plant fungus associations and is of significant importance for plant growth and persistence in many ecosystems over 90 of all plant species engage in mycorrhizal relationships with fungi and are dependent upon this relationship for survival 180 The dark filaments are hyphae of the endophytic fungus Epichloe coenophiala in the intercellular spaces of tall fescue leaf sheath tissue The mycorrhizal symbiosis is ancient dating back to at least 400 million years 158 It often increases the plant s uptake of inorganic compounds such as nitrate and phosphate from soils having low concentrations of these key plant nutrients 172 181 The fungal partners may also mediate plant to plant transfer of carbohydrates and other nutrients 182 Such mycorrhizal communities are called common mycorrhizal networks 183 184 A special case of mycorrhiza is myco heterotrophy whereby the plant parasitizes the fungus obtaining all of its nutrients from its fungal symbiont 185 Some fungal species inhabit the tissues inside roots stems and leaves in which case they are called endophytes 186 Similar to mycorrhiza endophytic colonization by fungi may benefit both symbionts for example endophytes of grasses impart to their host increased resistance to herbivores and other environmental stresses and receive food and shelter from the plant in return 187 With algae and cyanobacteria The lichen Lobaria pulmonaria a symbiosis of fungal algal and cyanobacterial species Lichens are a symbiotic relationship between fungi and photosynthetic algae or cyanobacteria The photosynthetic partner in the relationship is referred to in lichen terminology as a photobiont The fungal part of the relationship is composed mostly of various species of ascomycetes and a few basidiomycetes 188 Lichens occur in every ecosystem on all continents play a key role in soil formation and the initiation of biological succession 189 and are prominent in some extreme environments including polar alpine and semiarid desert regions 190 They are able to grow on inhospitable surfaces including bare soil rocks tree bark wood shells barnacles and leaves 191 As in mycorrhizas the photobiont provides sugars and other carbohydrates via photosynthesis to the fungus while the fungus provides minerals and water to the photobiont The functions of both symbiotic organisms are so closely intertwined that they function almost as a single organism in most cases the resulting organism differs greatly from the individual components 192 Lichenization is a common mode of nutrition for fungi around 27 of known fungi more than 19 400 species are lichenized 193 Characteristics common to most lichens include obtaining organic carbon by photosynthesis slow growth small size long life long lasting seasonal vegetative reproductive structures mineral nutrition obtained largely from airborne sources and greater tolerance of desiccation than most other photosynthetic organisms in the same habitat 194 With insects Many insects also engage in mutualistic relationships with fungi Several groups of ants cultivate fungi in the order Chaetothyriales for several purposes as a food source as a structural component of their nests and as a part of an ant plant symbiosis in the domatia tiny chambers in plants that house arthropods 195 Ambrosia beetles cultivate various species of fungi in the bark of trees that they infest 196 Likewise females of several wood wasp species genus Sirex inject their eggs together with spores of the wood rotting fungus Amylostereum areolatum into the sapwood of pine trees the growth of the fungus provides ideal nutritional conditions for the development of the wasp larvae 197 At least one species of stingless bee has a relationship with a fungus in the genus Monascus where the larvae consume and depend on fungus transferred from old to new nests 198 Termites on the African savannah are also known to cultivate fungi 174 and yeasts of the genera Candida and Lachancea inhabit the gut of a wide range of insects including neuropterans beetles and cockroaches it is not known whether these fungi benefit their hosts 199 Fungi growing in dead wood are essential for xylophagous insects e g woodboring beetles 200 201 202 They deliver nutrients needed by xylophages to nutritionally scarce dead wood 203 201 202 Thanks to this nutritional enrichment the larvae of the woodboring insect is able to grow and develop to adulthood 200 The larvae of many families of fungicolous flies particularly those within the superfamily Sciaroidea such as the Mycetophilidae and some Keroplatidae feed on fungal fruiting bodies and sterile mycorrhizae 204 As pathogens and parasites The plant pathogen Puccinia magellanicum calafate rust causes the defect known as witch s broom seen here on a barberry shrub in Chile Gram stain of Candida albicans from a vaginal swab from a woman with candidiasis showing hyphae and chlamydospores which are 2 4 µm in diameter Many fungi are parasites on plants animals including humans and other fungi Serious pathogens of many cultivated plants causing extensive damage and losses to agriculture and forestry include the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae 205 tree pathogens such as Ophiostoma ulmi and Ophiostoma novo ulmi causing Dutch elm disease 206 Cryphonectria parasitica responsible for chestnut blight 207 and Phymatotrichopsis omnivora causing Texas Root Rot and plant pathogens in the genera Fusarium Ustilago Alternaria and Cochliobolus 178 Some carnivorous fungi like Paecilomyces lilacinus are predators of nematodes which they capture using an array of specialized structures such as constricting rings or adhesive nets 208 Many fungi that are plant pathogens such as Magnaporthe oryzae can switch from being biotrophic parasitic on living plants to being necrotrophic feeding on the dead tissues of plants they have killed 209 This same principle is applied to fungi feeding parasites including Asterotremella albida which feeds on the fruit bodies of other fungi both while they are living and after they are dead 210 Some fungi can cause serious diseases in humans several of which may be fatal if untreated These include aspergillosis candidiasis coccidioidomycosis cryptococcosis histoplasmosis mycetomas and paracoccidioidomycosis Furthermore persons with immuno deficiencies are particularly susceptible to disease by genera such as Aspergillus Candida Cryptoccocus 179 211 212 Histoplasma 213 and Pneumocystis 214 Other fungi can attack eyes nails hair and especially skin the so called dermatophytic and keratinophilic fungi and cause local infections such as ringworm and athlete s foot 215 Fungal spores are also a cause of allergies and fungi from different taxonomic groups can evoke allergic reactions 216 As targets of mycoparasites Organisms that parasitize fungi are known as mycoparasitic organisms About 300 species of fungi and fungus like organisms belonging to 13 classes and 113 genera are used as biocontrol agents against plant fungal diseases 217 Fungi can also act as mycoparasites or antagonists of other fungi such as Hypomyces chrysospermus which grows on bolete mushrooms Fungi can also become the target of infection by mycoviruses 218 219 Communication Main article Plant and fungi communication via mycorrhizal networks There appears to be electrical communication between fungi in word like components according to spiking characteristics 220 Mycotoxins Ergotamine a major mycotoxin produced by Claviceps species which if ingested can cause gangrene convulsions and hallucinations Many fungi produce biologically active compounds several of which are toxic to animals or plants and are therefore called mycotoxins Of particular relevance to humans are mycotoxins produced by molds causing food spoilage and poisonous mushrooms see above Particularly infamous are the lethal amatoxins in some Amanita mushrooms and ergot alkaloids which have a long history of causing serious epidemics of ergotism St Anthony s Fire in people consuming rye or related cereals contaminated with sclerotia of the ergot fungus Claviceps purpurea 221 Other notable mycotoxins include the aflatoxins which are insidious liver toxins and highly carcinogenic metabolites produced by certain Aspergillus species often growing in or on grains and nuts consumed by humans ochratoxins patulin and trichothecenes e g T 2 mycotoxin and fumonisins which have significant impact on human food supplies or animal livestock 222 Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites or natural products and research has established the existence of biochemical pathways solely for the purpose of producing mycotoxins and other natural products in fungi 38 Mycotoxins may provide fitness benefits in terms of physiological adaptation competition with other microbes and fungi and protection from consumption fungivory 223 224 Many fungal secondary metabolites or derivatives are used medically as described under Human use below Pathogenic mechanismsUstilago maydis is a pathogenic plant fungus that causes smut disease in maize and teosinte Plants have evolved efficient defense systems against pathogenic microbes such as U maydis A rapid defense reaction after pathogen attack is the oxidative burst where the plant produces reactive oxygen species at the site of the attempted invasion U maydis can respond to the oxidative burst with an oxidative stress response regulated by the gene YAP1 The response protects U maydis from the host defense and is necessary for the pathogen s virulence 225 Furthermore U maydis has a well established recombinational DNA repair system which acts during mitosis and meiosis 226 The system may assist the pathogen in surviving DNA damage arising from the host plant s oxidative defensive response to infection 227 Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast that can live in both plants and animals C neoformans usually infects the lungs where it is phagocytosed by alveolar macrophages 228 Some C neoformans can survive inside macrophages which appears to be the basis for latency disseminated disease and resistance to antifungal agents One mechanism by which C neoformans survives the hostile macrophage environment is by up regulating the expression of genes involved in the oxidative stress response 228 Another mechanism involves meiosis The majority of C neoformans are mating type a Filaments of mating type a ordinarily have haploid nuclei but they can become diploid perhaps by endoduplication or by stimulated nuclear fusion to form blastospores The diploid nuclei of blastospores can undergo meiosis including recombination to form haploid basidiospores that can be dispersed 229 This process is referred to as monokaryotic fruiting This process requires a gene called DMC1 which is a conserved homologue of genes recA in bacteria and RAD51 in eukaryotes that mediates homologous chromosome pairing during meiosis and repair of DNA double strand breaks Thus C neoformans can undergo a meiosis monokaryotic fruiting that promotes recombinational repair in the oxidative DNA damaging environment of the host macrophage and the repair capability may contribute to its virulence 227 229 Human useSee also Human interactions with fungi Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells shown with DIC microscopy The human use of fungi for food preparation or preservation and other purposes is extensive and has a long history Mushroom farming and mushroom gathering are large industries in many countries The study of the historical uses and sociological impact of fungi is known as ethnomycology Because of the capacity of this group to produce an enormous range of natural products with antimicrobial or other biological activities many species have long been used or are being developed for industrial production of antibiotics vitamins and anti cancer and cholesterol lowering drugs Methods have been developed for genetic engineering of fungi 230 enabling metabolic engineering of fungal species For example genetic modification of yeast species 231 which are easy to grow at fast rates in large fermentation vessels has opened up ways of pharmaceutical production that are potentially more efficient than production by the original source organisms 232 Fungi based industries are sometimes considered to be a major part of a growing bioeconomy with applications under research and development including use for textiles meat substitution and general fungal biotechnology 233 234 235 236 237 Therapeutic uses Modern chemotherapeutics See also Medicinal fungi The mold Penicillium rubens was the source of penicillin G 238 Many species produce metabolites that are major sources of pharmacologically active drugs Antibiotics Particularly important are the antibiotics including the penicillins a structurally related group of b lactam antibiotics that are synthesized from small peptides Although naturally occurring penicillins such as penicillin G produced by Penicillium chrysogenum have a relatively narrow spectrum of biological activity a wide range of other penicillins can be produced by chemical modification of the natural penicillins Modern penicillins are semisynthetic compounds obtained initially from fermentation cultures but then structurally altered for specific desirable properties 239 Other antibiotics produced by fungi include ciclosporin commonly used as an immunosuppressant during transplant surgery and fusidic acid used to help control infection from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria 240 Widespread use of antibiotics for the treatment of bacterial diseases such as tuberculosis syphilis leprosy and others began in the early 20th century and continues to date In nature antibiotics of fungal or bacterial origin appear to play a dual role at high concentrations they act as chemical defense against competition with other microorganisms in species rich environments such as the rhizosphere and at low concentrations as quorum sensing molecules for intra or interspecies signaling 241 Other Other drugs produced by fungi include griseofulvin isolated from Penicillium griseofulvum used to treat fungal infections 242 and statins HMG CoA reductase inhibitors used to inhibit cholesterol synthesis Examples of statins found in fungi include mevastatin from Penicillium citrinum and lovastatin from Aspergillus terreus and the oyster mushroom 243 Psilocybin from fungi is investigated for therapeutic use and appears to cause global increases in brain network integration 244 Fungi produce compounds that inhibit viruses 245 246 and cancer cells 247 Specific metabolites such as polysaccharide K ergotamine and b lactam antibiotics are routinely used in clinical medicine The shiitake mushroom is a source of lentinan a clinical drug approved for use in cancer treatments in several countries including Japan 248 249 In Europe and Japan polysaccharide K brand name Krestin a chemical derived from Trametes versicolor is an approved adjuvant for cancer therapy 250 Traditional medicine The fungi Ganoderma lucidum left and Ophiocordyceps sinensis right are used in traditional medicine practices Certain mushrooms are used as supposed therapeutics in folk medicine practices such as traditional Chinese medicine Mushrooms with a history of such use include Agaricus subrufescens 247 251 Ganoderma lucidum 252 and Ophiocordyceps sinensis 253 Cultured foods Baker s yeast or Saccharomyces cerevisiae a unicellular fungus is used to make bread and other wheat based products such as pizza dough and dumplings 254 Yeast species of the genus Saccharomyces are also used to produce alcoholic beverages through fermentation 255 Shoyu koji mold Aspergillus oryzae is an essential ingredient in brewing Shoyu soy sauce and sake and the preparation of miso 256 while Rhizopus species are used for making tempeh 257 Several of these fungi are domesticated species that were bred or selected according to their capacity to ferment food without producing harmful mycotoxins see below which are produced by very closely related Aspergilli 258 Quorn a meat substitute is made from Fusarium venenatum 259 In food A selection of edible mushrooms eaten in Asia Edible mushrooms include commercially raised and wild harvested fungi Agaricus bisporus sold as button mushrooms when small or Portobello mushrooms when larger is the most widely cultivated species in the West used in salads soups and many other dishes Many Asian fungi are commercially grown and have increased in popularity in the West They are often available fresh in grocery stores and markets including straw mushrooms Volvariella volvacea oyster mushrooms Pleurotus ostreatus shiitakes Lentinula edodes and enokitake Flammulina spp 260 Stilton cheese veined with Penicillium roqueforti Many other mushroom species are harvested from the wild for personal consumption or commercial sale Milk mushrooms morels chanterelles truffles black trumpets and porcini mushrooms Boletus edulis also known as king boletes demand a high price on the market They are often used in gourmet dishes 261 Certain types of cheeses require inoculation of milk curds with fungal species that impart a unique flavor and texture to the cheese Examples include the blue color in cheeses such as Stilton or Roquefort which are made by inoculation with Penicillium roqueforti 262 Molds used in cheese production are non toxic and are thus safe for human consumption however mycotoxins e g aflatoxins roquefortine C patulin or others may accumulate because of growth of other fungi during cheese ripening or storage 263 Poisonous fungi Amanita phalloides accounts for the majority of fatal mushroom poisonings worldwide It sometimes lacks the greenish color seen here Many mushroom species are poisonous to humans and cause a range of reactions including slight digestive problems allergic reactions hallucinations severe organ failure and death Genera with mushrooms containing deadly toxins include Conocybe Galerina Lepiota and the most infamous Amanita 264 The latter genus includes the destroying angel A virosa and the death cap A phalloides the most common cause of deadly mushroom poisoning 265 The false morel Gyromitra esculenta is occasionally considered a delicacy when cooked yet can be highly toxic when eaten raw 266 Tricholoma equestre was considered edible until it was implicated in serious poisonings causing rhabdomyolysis 267 Fly agaric mushrooms Amanita muscaria also cause occasional non fatal poisonings mostly as a result of ingestion for its hallucinogenic properties Historically fly agaric was used by different peoples in Europe and Asia and its present usage for religious or shamanic purposes is reported from some ethnic groups such as the Koryak people of northeastern Siberia 268 As it is difficult to accurately identify a safe mushroom without proper training and knowledge it is often advised to assume that a wild mushroom is poisonous and not to consume it 269 270 Pest control Main article Biological pest control Fungi Grasshoppers killed by Beauveria bassiana In agriculture fungi may be useful if they actively compete for nutrients and space with pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria or other fungi via the competitive exclusion principle 271 or if they are parasites of these pathogens For example certain species eliminate or suppress the growth of harmful plant pathogens such as insects mites weeds nematodes and other fungi that cause diseases of important crop plants 272 This has generated strong interest in practical applications that use these fungi in the biological control of these agricultural pests Entomopathogenic fungi can be used as biopesticides as they actively kill insects 273 Examples that have been used as biological insecticides are Beauveria bassiana Metarhizium spp Hirsutella spp Paecilomyces Isaria spp and Lecanicillium lecanii 274 275 Endophytic fungi of grasses of the genus Epichloe such as E coenophiala produce alkaloids that are toxic to a range of invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores These alkaloids protect grass plants from herbivory but several endophyte alkaloids can poison grazing animals such as cattle and sheep 276 Infecting cultivars of pasture or forage grasses with Epichloe endophytes 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