Question

Write the importance of fungi in human life.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Fungi are important decomposers in most ecosystems. Mycorrhizal fungi are essential for the growth of most plants. Fungi, as food, play a role in human nutrition in the form of mushrooms, and also as agents of fermentation in the production of bread, cheeses, alcoholic beverages, and numerous other food preparations.

Answer 2

Answer:

Importance of Fungi: These are one of the most important organism’s groups on our Earth. Fungi play very important roles in the biosphere.

Explanation:

Yeasts have been used for thousands of years in the production of beer, wine, and bread. Fungi not only directly produce substances that humans use as medicine, but they are also versatile tools in the vast field of medical research. Some fungi attack insects and, therefore, can be used as natural pesticides.

1. They are very important as decomposer and symbionts.
2. The decomposer fungi (with bacteria) play an important role in the recycling of inorganic nutrients in the ecosystem. All the essential nutrients will accumulate in the form of dead bodies of animals and plants without decomposers. So these nutrients will be unavailable for the use of organisms. It will end life on earth.
3. Mycorrhizal fungi improve the growth of the plants. 95 % of all kinds of vascular plants have this association.
4. Lichens grow on rocks. They break the rock and make it suitable of ecological succession.
5. Lichen is very good bio indicators of air quality as they are very sensitive to pollution.
6. Some fungi are used for bioremediation. They degrade the environmental pollutants. Bioremediation means degrading or removing environmental poisons/pollutants by organism.

commercial use

1. Edible Fungi

Certain fungi are edible. About 200 species of mushrooms (Agaricus sp.) is used as food.

for example - For example:

Morels: e.g. Morchella esculenta.

Truffles: Underground fruiting bodies of some Ascomycetes, e.g. Tuber sp.

Reindeer moss (lichen) is used as food for reindeer and some other animals in arctic, subarctic or boreal regions (confer forests).

2. Use in food industry

Certain fungi are used in food industry.

Yeasts can cause fermentation. So yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) are used in production of bread and liquor.

Pencillium species are used for giving flavour, aroma and characteristic colour to some cheese.

Some species of Aspergillus are used for fermenting and producing soya sauce and soya paste from soya beans.

Citric acid is also obtained from some Aspergillus species.

3. Antibiotics and other drugs

fungi in Antibiotics

Some fungi are source of antibiotics and other drugs.

Penicillin was first antibiotic. It was discovered by A. Fleming in 1928. Penicillin is obtained from Pendulum notatum.

Lovastatin is used for lowering the blood cholesterol.

Cyclosporine is obtained from soil fungus. It is used in organ transplantation (like kidney). It prevents the transplant rejection.

Ergotine is used to relieve headache by migraine.

Griseofulvin is used to inhibit fungal growth.

4. Natural dyes

Some natural dyes are obtained from lichens. These are used in textile industry.

5. . Use in Biological Research

Some fungi are use in biological research:

Yeasts are used in genetic and biological research. Yeasts produce new generations rapidly. They increase the genetic pool (total genes) and biochemical information.

Yeasts were the first eukaryote which was used in genetic engineering. In 1983, functional artificial chromosome was made in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The same yeast was the first eukaryote whose genomic sequence was completely studied in 1996.

Yeasts are being studied for the production of some hormones.

Neurospora (pink mold) has been used for genetic research.

6. Soil Fertility

They maintain the soil fertility by decomposing the dead organic material e.g. Saprophytic Fungi.

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