As well as their contribution to medicine, fungi are being widely used to address the ills of modern society. In such areas as biocontrols, breaking down various pollutants and toxic pesticides and absorbing heavy metals, fungi have already made countless contributions to the "knowledge economy."
除了醫療貢獻，真菌更被廣泛用來解決現代社會的種種後遺症，在生物防治、各種污染與有毒農藥的分解、與重金屬的吸收上，真菌已創造出無數「知識經濟」。