There was a report on BBC Breakfast news this morning about Fungi with a chap from Kew Gardens. Very interesting, he told a story about the scientists buying a punnet from a high street store, analysing the DNA and finding two new strains of fungi!!
Upshot is, they are now looking more at fungi than at any other time as they are such an untapped recourse for medicine, ecology, science and even making handbags! (They showed one and it looked sturdy enough).