ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Advances in Understanding of Desiccation Tolerance of Lichens and Lichen-Forming Algae.
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- Semilichen, an unjustly neglected symbiotic system between green biofilms and true lichens.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Surviving desiccation: key factors underlying tolerance in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.Protoplasma · 2025Review
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- Ionizing radiation resilience: how metabolically active lichens endure exposure to the simulated Mars atmosphere.IMA fungus · 2025Article
- The sound of lichens: ultrasonic acoustic emissions during desiccation question cavitation events in the hyphae.Journal of experimental botany · 2024Article
- Protecting Proteins from Desiccation Stress Using Molecular Glasses and Gels.Chemical reviews · 2024Review
- Basic science is not just a foundation.Nature cell biology · 2024Article
- The extracellular matrix of green algae.Plant physiology · 2023Review
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- Lichen Biodiversity and Near-Infrared Metabolomic Fingerprint as Diagnostic and Prognostic Complementary Tools for Biomonitoring: A Case Study in the Eastern Iberian Peninsula.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Comparative Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analyses Provide New Insights into the Tolerance to Cyclic Dehydration in a Lichen Phycobiont.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Lichens are symbiotic associations (holobionts) established between fungi (mycobionts) and certain groups of cyanobacteria or unicellular green algae (photobionts). This symbiotic association has been essential in the colonization of terrestrial dry habitats. Lichens possess key mechanisms involved in desiccation tolerance (DT) that are constitutively present such as high amounts of polyols, LEA proteins, HSPs, a powerful antioxidant system, thylakoidal oligogalactolipids, etc. This strategy allows them to be always ready to survive drastic changes in their water content. However, several studies indicate that at least some protective mechanisms require a minimal time to be induced, such as the induction of the antioxidant system, the activation of non-photochemical quenching including the de-epoxidation of violaxanthin to zeaxanthin, lipid membrane remodeling, changes in the proportions of polyols, ultrastructural changes, marked polysaccharide remodeling of the cell wall, etc. Although DT in lichens is achieved mainly through constitutive mechanisms, the induction of protection mechanisms might allow them to face desiccation stress in a better condition. The proportion and relevance of constitutive and inducible DT mechanisms seem to be related to the ecology at which lichens are adapted to.
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