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How Disease-Causing Fungi can Affect Plants

How Disease-Causing Fungi can Affect Plants. 6.2.9 Explain how disease-causing fungi can affect plants. Fungi are a kingdom of organisms that do not make their own food. Many types of fungi must grow in or on other organisms, such as plants.

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How Disease-Causing Fungi can Affect Plants

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  1. How Disease-Causing Fungi can Affect Plants 6.2.9 Explain how disease-causing fungi can affect plants.

  2. Fungi are a kingdom of organisms that do not make their own food. • Many types of fungi must grow in or on other organisms, such as plants.

  3. These fungi, for example grain mold, corn smut, and wheat rust, cause diseases in those plants that result in huge crop losses.

  4. Diseases caused by fungi may also affect other important crops, such as rice, cotton, rye, and soybeans.

  5. If a fungus infects a tree, fruit, or grass, it can eventually kill the plant.

  6. Although fungi can be harmful to plants,they are also helpful as decomposers, as a source of penicillin (medicine), and as food.

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