The Systematics and Biological Properties of Toxinogenic Fungi

Fungi represent a vast heterogeneous group of organisms, differing in their morphology, methods of reproduction, cycles of development, ways of nutrition and habitats. At present many mycologists and biologists support the con-. caption concerning the three classes of multiracemose organisms - plants, animals and fungi, according to which the fungi are given the status of a separate kingdom in the organic world, on a par with the plants and the animals.