1. Fungi Kingdom
By:
Corinne Fabien

2. What is a Fungus Kingdom?
A fungus (also pronounced fungi or funguses) is a large group of eukaryotic (organism cells contain complex structures enclosed)organisms which include microorganisms like, yeasts and molds (British English: moulds also known as mushrooms). They are classified as “Kingdom”, because they are separated from plants, animals, and bacteria.

3. About the Fungi(Fungus) Kingdom:
Fungi are a group of organisms that includes moulds, yeast, rust, smuts, mildews, mushrooms, and toadstools.
To scientist there are 70,000 species of fungi known although there may be as 1.5 million actually existing.
Fungi are not considered plants for three main reasons: they have no leaves; they contain no chlorophyll (a green colouring), and they are unable to produce their own food by photosynthesis, instead they produce by spores.

4. More info on Fungi:
Some fungi are edible, but many fungi are highly poisonous. Fungi which are poisoned can often cause damages, sometimes disease to organic matter on which they live and feed.
Some, fungi are used for production of food and drink, ex: yeasts can be used in baking and brewing (definition : production of beer, ale by steeping, boiling and fermenting malt and hops. Or to prepare beverage as tea by mixing, steeping soaking, or boiling a solid water.). It could be used in medicine, ex: penicillin.

5. What are Fungi:
“Fungi are either parasites, living on existing plants and animals, or saprotroph, living on dead matter”. Most of the serious plant disease are caused by fungi, and several of them attack humans and animals. Ex: Athlete’s foot, thrush, and ringworm are fungal diseases by fungi.

6. Different Types of Fungi

7. Coral Spot
A Coral spot is called so because they affect branches to die, than develop pinhead sized pink fungal pustules. Its a disease caused by the Nectria cinnabarina. Coral spots are usually found on dead wood. Its a fungal disease that migrate to living tissue after “entering via pruning snags and frost damaged twigs”. Its disease causes branches to die. Small coral pink raise spots (pustules) after the branch dies. Coral spot often show that the plant or branch was weakened by other factors.

8. Hydnellum peckii
Hydnellum (also referred as Blood tooth fungus) is a genus “(Definition: term comes from Latin “descent, family, type, gender.)” of tooth fungus of the family Bankeraceae in the order Thelephorales.
Hydnellum’s genus is widely distributed, and there are 38 species. Its member growth goes slowly enveloping bits of grass and vegetation around them. Hydnellum peckii are too tough and woody to eat comfortably.
Some species of the Blood tooth fungus produce pigments(something used to change the color of reflected or transmitted light) that has been used for centuries to dye textiles.

9. Endophyte Fungi:
Endophyte are fungi that live inside plants. An endophyte is an endosymbiont, and often a bacterium or fungus that lives in plant for at least part of its life without causing diseases . Almost all plants have endophytes and many have large numbers, for example the grass fescue has 400 species.

10. Mycelium Fungi:
Fungi were include with division Thallophyta, along with algae and bacteria, before it came into use. “Thallophyta are polyphyletic group of non-mobile organisms also described as “Relatively simple plants” or “lower plants” with undifferentiated bodies”. Polyphyletic is a Greek word for many races.

11. Nail Fungal:
A nail fungal infection is caused by a fungi that doesn’t need sunlight to survive. A “Trichophyton rubrum” is what that most common that causes a fungal infection. A Pathogens that causes a nail infection, usually enters the skin through tiny cuts or smaller separations between the nail and nail bed. The fungi only grows when the nail provides a warn and moist environment. The symptoms of a nail fungal are “thickened, brittle, crumbly, ragged, distorted, dull, and darker and yellowish in color”.

12. Fungi (Fungus) Diagram:
Fungus Diagram: Mushroom
Fungus Diagram: Yeast cell

13. Fungi Chart:

14. Fungi life Cycle:

15. Subcategories

16. Parasite fungal How’s a fungus a parasite?
First of all a fungus grows and lives on a host. The host provides the nutrients for life and the fungus grows there, which makes it a parasite.

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19. Links: http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Fungi+kingdom

20. Links: http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/coralspt.htm