Molecular Mycotaxonomy- A New Era of Fungal Systematics

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything. “If certain bacteria fungi or algae inch across something made of copper they absorb copper atoms which disrupt their metabolism (human cells are unaffected). The microbes choke and die after a few hours”. Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi which ultimately create the foundation of soils.