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Basidiomycota:
Abuse:
People use some as drugs and sell them in drug trade.
Facts:
Basidiomycota includes about 15,000 known species; some are very well known such as: mushrooms, puffballs, and
shelf fungi. This group is recognized by their club-shaped reproductive organ, called the basidium.
Basidiomycota reproduce asexually, either by budding or by spore formation. Budding occurs when a parent cell is
separating into a new cell, whereas spore formation often takes place at the ends of specialized structures called
conidiophores.
Harms:
Destroys buildings and wooden structures.
Can destroy wheat and other crops.
Contains poisonous toxins.
Can cause disease within animals.
Uses:
Basidiomycota yeast produces a red pigment used in the coloring of farmed salmon.
Helpful in the Carbon Cycle, because they obtain nutrients by decaying dead organic matter, which includes wood.
However, this relates to one of the harms, because too much wood consumption isn’t good.
The mushrooms, both cultivated and wild, are eaten in many countries.
Certain enzymes of Basidiomycota have potential applications involved with paper production.