| He discovered that the fungi are smaller and about ten times less abundant in the plantations than they are in untouched forests. |
| Organisms such as fungi have evolved complex networks in which there are centralised and decentralised pathways to move nutrients around. |
| Thus, counter-intuitively, plants are likely to have diverged first, leaving fungi and animals as sister groups. |
| This action can both reduce the surface pollution of superstratum soil and promote the growth of the mycelia and the funguses. |
| The funguses in which penicillin was discovered use it to kill bacteria which might compete with them for food. |
| But as jungle diversity was replaced with monolithic fields of Gros Michels, funguses like Race One were provided with many more hosts. |
