Fungal

Tom and Mary tested the wheat for fungal infestation. It ought to be harvested in six to eight weeks.

Tom and Mary were testing the wheat for fungal infestation. It ought to be harvested in six to eight weeks.

Tom has a fungal infection.

Immunocompromised patients are at greater risk of a fungal infection.

Ivy has some fungal issues.

Costa is working to protect farmers from a fungal disease called wheat scab that infected half the crop last year.

For example, because U.S. commercial apple trees are often felled by diseases like "fire blight" and "apple scab," Forsline and his team have made several field trips to the forests of Kazakhstan, where the apple originated, to collect wild apple seeds. Because this fungal disease co-exists with ancient wild apple trees, Forsline concludes that the trees have evolved genetic resistance to it.

Doctors determined that the cause of the itchy rash was fungal rather than bacterial.

Fungals are distinguished from Lichens by their more fugitive nature, their more succulent texture, their want of a thallus or expansion independent of the part that bears the reproductive matter, […]

Fungals are, however, among the more useful friends of man as food, and among his most dangerous enemies as parasites, destroying the sources of his food.