A candidate for book of the year is What If Fungi Win? by Arturo Casadevall, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Could a fungus trigger a Last of Us-style apocalypse? The author of What If Fungi Win? says despite dangers, the organisms are of great use to science.
He rates fungi as critical elements for life on Earth. He sets out how they are essential for life, but also help man in numerous guises, to creating wine and food stuffs to groundbreaking medicines such as penicillin and statins.
What If Fungi Win? by Arturo Casadevall is published by Johns Hopkins University Press (£14).
