Nature's ground force.
Some of the world's oldest and richest commercial biotechnologies are based on fungi, for example the production of bread, wine, beer and medicines. But they have a far greater, yet largely unrecognised, influence on human existence--they are crucial to some of the processes which ensure that major ecosystems world-wide keep ticking over.
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CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products, Australia.
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D017753:Ecosystem; D005658:Fungi / Q000502:physiology*