Abstract
Although the amino acid nutrition of fungi has received considerable attention, less study has been made of amino acid transport into fungal cells. Cochrane (1958) , in a paragraph in his book dealing with the transport of amino acids into the cell stated, ‘the main purpose of this section must be to call attention to a problem which has only been tentatively explored in the fungi’. This essay considers the evolution of transport systems, properties of amino acid transport systems and the possible mechanisms of their operation. An attempt is made to correlate physiological and ecological data regarding amino acids and fungi, and to consider whether these amino acid transport systems are important functional processes in a natural environment. In this connexion it is necessary to consider aspects of nitrogen nutrition.
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