Kew will be publishing its first State of the World’s Fungi report on Wednesday, with a follow-up symposium on Thursday and Friday. We plan to be there on both days, and in the build-up to the report and the event, we’ll be posting some fungi-related material to show why if you’re serious about plants you have to be serious about fungi too.
Kew's report highlights how ignorant we are of an astonishingly successful Kingdom of life.
Why are we interested in fungi here? Partly because if you're interested in plants, you'll find fungi everywhere.
Fungi: A Very Short Introduction, by Nicholas P. Money, 2016. Oxford University Press. As much as I would like to think that plants are the most important organisms on planet Earth, even I have to admit that fungi are...
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