Many fungi are harmful to human interests:

• can cause human disease, either directly or through their toxins

• can cause diseases of plants and animals that humans are intersted in (e.g. crops, etc.)

• cause rot and contamination of foods

• can destroy almost every kind of manufactured good-- with the exception of plastics and some pesticides

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Many fungi cause problems because we are in competition with them for some limited resources.

See also “Fungal Diseases that must be overcome to have a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner” at <a href-=“http://www.wisc.edu/botany/fungi/thanks.html”> http://www.wisc.edu/botany/fungi/thanks.html</a>