Positive Benefits of Fungi

Even though fungi might cause diseases to human and other organisms and often tend to be parasites toward others, fungsi also have positive contributions to earth. First of all, many kinds of mushrooms serve as food supply that rich in nutrition with its delicious and unique taste. Other than food supply, certain groups of fungi form mutualistic relationships with plants called mycorrhizae. Fungi in the plant roots help to gather water and mineral from the soil, in return, the fungi gets energy supply from the plants through photosynhesis. Plants that do not form mycorrhizae with fungi might not be able to gather enough materials needed to make energy. Those two are the perfect examples of postive benefits of fungi to living organisms.