Question

Harmful effects of fungi on plants leaves ,leather clothes and other articles

Answer 1

Disease causing fungi are found in class Phycomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes and Fungi Imperfecti. No species of Myxomycetes are known to cause disease in plants, except mushrooms. Some of the important diseases are listed in the given table.

Fungi infect many economically important plants and minimize the yield of food grains considerably. In 1945 late blight of potato (caused by Phytophthora infestans) destroyed millions of acres of potato crop and caused famine in Ireland, it resulted in the death of about a million people and almost the same number of people migrated to other continents. Similarly, the 1942 Bengal famine which resulted in the death of two million people was due to destruction of rice crop by brown leaf spot disease caused by Helminthosporium oryzae.

Answer 2

fungi spoil the plant and leaves,fungi take the strength of the leather clothes