It depends on whether you view plant fungal endophytes as parasites or
mutualists - they can be both. I don't know specifically about the
endophyte load in crop plants, but if it is like others then we eat them
all the time!
On 5/1/2014 9:08 AM, David Inouye wrote:
At a dinner conversation with Carl Zimmer (author of Parasite Rex,
etc.) the question came up of whether there are any parasites
regularly consumed as food (not unintentionally with your food). I
came up with one animal (pea crab) and one fungus (huitlacoche; corn
smut). Do you know of others?
David Inouye
