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• Naturally induced experiences from plants and fungi are often potent enough to form mystics, prophets, spiritual gurus, and gods.
• Antonelli et al. (2020) published a report on the state of the world’s plants and fungi.
• Ecosystem ecology involves studying the flow of energy and nutrients through both living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems, including the roles of producers (such as plants), consumers (such as herbivores and carnivores), and decomposers (such as fungi and bacteria) in maintaining ecosystem balance.
• By the 1960s, scientists organized living things into a five-kingdom system consisting of Monera (bacteria), Protista (protozoa and algae), Fungi (mushrooms, yeasts, and molds), Plantae (plants), and Animalia (animals).
• Ancient cultures have utilized hallucinogens derived from plants and fungi for religious and healing practices since the dawn of civilization.
• Natural compounds sourced from plants, fungi, lichens, endophytes, and marine organisms (including seaweeds and corals) remain a prominent area of investigation for antimicrobial agents.
• Throughout human history, shamans and priests have used plants and fungi as sources to contact divine realms.
• Mushrooms are classified as fungi, not plants, because they do not perform photosynthesis.
• L. M. Marquez, R. S. Redman, et al. published 'A virus in a fungus in a plant: three-way symbiosis required for thermal tolerance' in the journal Science in 2007.
• Antonelli (Nat. Plants, 2019) discusses unlocking the properties of plants and fungi for sustainable development.
• A primary drawback of the two-kingdom classification system was that it grouped non-photosynthetic fungi, which feed on dead organic matter, with photosynthetic plants.
• The modern biological classification system is based on the Linnaean system and consists of eight levels of taxa: domain, kingdom, phylum (or division for plants and fungi), class, order, family, genus, and species.
• Scientists use the term 'division' as an alternative to 'phylum' when classifying plants and fungi.