Fungi Deployed in War on Knapweed

link: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/28/knapweed_pla_02.html?category=earth&guid=20061228093030

The Summary: the paragraph i read about fungi was talking mainly about how some fungi helps us . The fungi was helpful in ways like finding different medications and making many medications. A scientist thought that by finding things out about fungi some of the disease that were not a easy cured could be cured with fungi.The fungus typically exists in low concentrations, but when it's cultured in a lab and sprayed in higher concentrations, it has a deadly effect.some fungi flowers that were pink and purple had a toxic effect on the land of farmers also.


Fungi Article Questions:

1) What type of lifestyle does the fungus in the article have? (Is it saprophytic, autotrophic, or parasitic?) What information lead you to this conclusion? well I'll say parasitic because it is effect in land and other things in this article
2) What benefits or problems can you foresee with this particular fungus? it is creating toxins for the soil that means its effecting the food growth.
3) List three things you learned from this article in your own words. fungi can be helpful with medicines,it can be toxic,and it is a decomposes dead organisms.
4) Infer what potential impact this fungus will have on the environment it grows in. a bad impact, because in this article it was destroying things and it was a toxin so it wasn't really helpful to us.