FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fungi tend to mutate at slower rates than viruses and bacteria, often in the range of 10−8 to 10−10 substitutions per base pair per generation [45, 46].

Detailed explanation-2: -The kingdom Fungi is a large and diverse group of organisms, estimated to comprise between 1.5 and 7.1 million species (Dornburg et al., 2017). The group ranges from unicellular yeasts to multicellular filamentous fungi that also include macroscopic fungi that form large fruiting bodies (Boland et al., 2012).