Stephen Curry is the best shooter in the National Basketball Association, bar none, and winner of the leagueâs Most Valuable Player award â and he could be worth $1 billion to athletic apparel maker Under Armour Inc. At least, thatâs what Chief Executive Kevin Plank is hoping.
A fungus (plural: fungi) is a kind of living organism: yeasts, moulds and mushrooms are types of fungi. The fungi are a separate kingdom of living things, different from animals and plants.
Fungi are heterotrophs and, like animals, obtain their carbon and energy from other organisms. Some fungi obtain their nutrients from a living host (plant or animal) and are called biotrophs; others obtain their nutrients from dead plants or animals and are called saprotrophs (saprophytes, saprobes).ungi are an important group of plant pathogensâmost plant diseases are caused by fungiâbut fewer than 10% of all known fungi can colonize living plants (Knogge, 1996). Plant pathogenic fungi represent a relatively small subset of those fungi that are associated with plants.