Desiccation-Tolerance in Lichens: A Review

By I. Kranner, R. Beckett, A. Hochman, T. Nash. 2008

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Ecophysiology of Desiccation/Rehydration Cycles in Mosses and Lichens (2011, background): “ROS are regarded as a potential major source of cellular damage through protein denaturation, pigment loss and lipid peroxidation in membranes (Smirnoff 1993; Kranner et al. 2008 ).”
Interspecific and intraspecific variations in water storage in epiphytic old forest foliose lichens (2011, background): “Lichens are poikilohydric organisms that can survive prolonged periods of desiccation (as reviewed by Kranner et al. 2008).”
Culturable bacteria associated with Antarctic lichens: affiliation and psychrotolerance (2009, background): “It is generally assumed that the extreme stress tolerance of lichens is conferred by the physiological integration of the symbionts and the ability to survive adverse conditions when desiccated, based on their ability to revive from the dry, anhydrobiotic state (Kranner et al. 2008).”
Viability of the lichen Xanthoria elegans and its symbionts after 18 months of space exposure and simulated Mars conditions on the ISS (2014, background): “Anhydrobiosis provides enormous desiccation tolerance (Hoekstra et al. 2001; Schlensog et al. 2003; Rebecchi et al. 2007) and supports the importance of the poikilohydry as a fundamental life strategy of the lichen symbiosis in response to hostile conditions (Kranner et al. 2008).”
Desiccation tolerant plants as model systems to study redox regulation of protein thiols (2010, background): “…land-dwelling plants, because the first organisms that made the transition from life in the sea to life on land will have had to rely on constitutive protection mechanisms before they had evolved specialized desiccation-avoidance mechanisms, including cuticles, bark or skin (Kranner et al. 2008).”
Lecanoric acid, a secondary lichen substance with antioxidant properties from Umbilicaria antarctica in maritime Antarctica (King George Island) (2009, background): “…Suncheon, Jeonnam 540-742, Korea e-mail: jshur1@sunchon.ac.kr Y. Yamamoto Department of Biological Production, Faculty of Bioresource Sciences, Akita Prefectural University, Akita 010-0195, Japan antioxidants are essentially required for normal metabolism and stress response (Kranner et al. 2008).”
Characterization of active and total fungal communities in the atmosphere over the Amazon rainforest (2015, background): “Lichens are often the dominant life forms in environments that have conditions similar to those found in the atmosphere, including low water (Kranner et al., 2008) and nutrient availability, wide temperature variations, and high UV irradiance (e.”