Fungus Yields Fungicide

A fungus would seem to be the last place to find a fungicide, but two separate research teams recently analyzed fungi and successfully identified two potent antifungal substances.Infections like Athlete's foot and Candida that are caused by fungus, which is a parasitic plant lacking in chlorophyll, leaves and true stems and roots, spread easily and are often difficult to cure.

In people with compromised immune systems, such as AIDS patients, fungal infections can be life threatening. Scientists hope the new fungicides will lead to better treatments.

Since the fungicides also target plant molds, they may also lead to safer, more effective fruit and vegetable sprays in future.For the first study, recently published in the Journal of Applied Microbiology, lead author J.Y. Liu and researchers from Nanjing University in China studied marine fungi that reside in a fish called the white croaker, Argyrosomus argentatus... fungus yields fungicide

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