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Stress and Developmental Strategies in Lichens

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Symbioses and Stress

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In the very beginning, the lichen was simply noticed as a very enigmatic, but uniform plant with an unusual appearance and structure.

In the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, by discovering “symbiosis” as a common strategy of life, lichens were recognized to have a double nature and found to be composed of “a fungus and algae/cyanobacteria” (e.g., Schwendener, 1869).

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Acknowledgments

I am very grateful to the Austrian Science Foundation (FWF) for support (Projects 18210 and 20887). I especially appreciate the help of Jack Elix (Department of chemistry, ANU, Canberra, Australia) for taking me on a collecting trip to the Misty Mountains; where Stereocaulon ramulosum grows. I am also very grateful to Marcelo P. Marcelli (Instituto Botanica de Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Teuvo Ahti (Finland) for organizing the Re-collecting Vainio Meeting at Caraca, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Armin Hager is very much thanked for help with the figures and the reference list, computer assistance, in general.

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Stocker-Wörgötter, E. (2010). Stress and Developmental Strategies in Lichens. In: Seckbach, J., Grube, M. (eds) Symbioses and Stress. Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9449-0_27

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