Fungi scientists are endangered species

The Independent - London | November 28, 2008| | Copyright

Budget cuts threaten research into basics that propagate life on Earth

THEY GIVE us our daily bread and beer, provide us with life- saving medicines and recycle our waste, yet the study of fungi - life forms that include everything from penicillin to truffles - could end within the next 10 years in Britain.

Experts have warned that the science of identifying and classifying the many different species of fungi faces extinction in the UK, with less than a handful of qualified mycologists left in full-time employment by 2011 and none at all by 2018. Mycology - the study of fungi - is no longer ...

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