Fungal Quotes

You use a lot less water because you are actually getting water right to the root system. Plants don't absorb water through the leaves. Wet leaves are more vulnerable to bacterial and fungal diseases and insects. - Kathleen Patterson

Maybe, for normal people, it is not a bad thing. Maybe we need fungal exposure as press-ups for our immune system. On the other hand, maybe as we've changed to synthetic bedding from feather bedding, the flora and fauna have changed, too. We don't know. - Ashley Woodcock

It's important to note that the apparent HIV antiviral compounds identified in the Bonn study occur within the sunflower plant, not the edible seed or oil of sunflower. However, we already know that sunflower seed and oil have proven nutritional and health benefits unrelated to the defense chemicals within the plant that it uses to defend itself against fungal diseases. - Larry Kleingartner