human commercial uses for fungi

[cklee]

what are some of the human commercial uses for fungi?
thank you

[mith]

do a forum search

about2430.html&highlight=fungi

[mmiaosmiling]

eating...

[lara]

Yeasts are probably the oldest group of fungi to be domesticated because of the part they play in breadmaking and in brewing of alcoholic beverages.

[Ken Ramos]

Quite late in a reply but lichens are another. Used in the dying of wool and in some pharmacuticals from what I have read.

[MrMistery]

be aware that lichens are not fungi, their are a symbiothic relationship between a fungus and an algae

[mmiaosmiling]

be aware that lichens are not fungi, their are a symbiothic relationship between a fungus and an algae

not exactly...some lichens r symbiosed fungi and cyanobacteria(called blue algae or blue-green algae ago) which is sorted into bacteria but not algae.

[Poison]

Cyanobacteria are algae. Not bacteria. You learn them in algea classes.

[MrMistery]

Cyanobacteria are algae. Not bacteria. You learn them in algea classes.

Don't be confused by these idiot biologists Ozge!
Euglena viridis is taught in college as both an algae and a protozoan. So, what is it?
Cyanobacteria are the first organisms on earth to be able to do photosynthesis in the presence of oxigent and the first to release oxygen from the process, because they posses both photosystems(unlike other photosynthetic bacteria that only have photosystem I). But they are still procaryotic organisms, having all the general characteristics of eubacteria

@mmiaosmiling
What you are saying is true. However, over 85% of the known species of lichens(procentage may have changed since new lichens have been discovered) and the most succesful ones form between al algae and a fungus. I just wanted to make it more simple for someone who is not so advanced in biology as you are(yet, who knows about the future )
I just

[mmiaosmiling]

thanks,mister cheese