Fungi (plural form) are present in the soil. There are both beneficial and parasitic fungi! Damping off fungi causing young seedlings to die shortly after sprouting is a good example of a harmful one. There are fungi that form an association of the roots of plants that actually enhances the growth of the host plant by increasing the absorption surface of the roots and increasing solubility of the minerals. These mycorrhizal fungi are beneficial to plants.Does funguses effect the soil around the plants?
Sure do.http://mycorrhiza.ag.utk.edu/default.htm鈥?/a>
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