Slayers, Saviors, Servants, and Sex : An Expose of Kingdom Fungi by David
Moore, Springer-Verlag, $29.95/£20.00, ISBN 0387950982
THE fungi among us, laments David Moore, do not get much respect. They
provide us with much of our food, drink and antibiotics, but almost everyone
thinks fungi are plants—which they are not. The University of Manchester
mycologist has spent his career in a botany department; Slayers, Saviors,
Servants and Sex is his opportunity to set the record straight.
So if fungi are not plants, and they do not make food from sunlight, what do
they do? They just digest organic…
