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Artificial Resynthesis of Thalli of the Cyanobacterial Lichen Peltigera Praetextata Under Laboratory Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2007

Elfie Stocker-Wörgötter  and
Roman Türk
Elfie Stocker-Wörgötter
Affiliation:
Institüt für Pfianzenphysiologie, Universität Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria.
Roman Türk
Affiliation:
Institüt für Pfianzenphysiologie, Universität Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria.
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Abstract

The resynthesis of foliose thalli of the cyanobacterial lichen Peltigera praetextata was achieved on a soil substratum under laboratory conditions. On agar plates mycelia formation by this lichen fungus only occurred when a sufficient number of photobiont cells was present. Resynthesis on agar was restricted to the formation of loose algal-fungal associations, which showed no lichen-like structures. Early resynthesis stages were formed on soil only after a very long lag phase of 2–3 months. First soredia-like stages (resynthesis products of fungal hyphae and cyanobacteria) appeared, later tissue clumps and thallus primordia differentiated. Welldeveloped lichen thalli with rhizines that resembled young thalli from the natural environment were formed after an incubation time of 2–3 years.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Lichenologist , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , April 1991 , pp. 127 - 138
Copyright
Copyright © British Lichen Society 1991

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