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OBSERVATIONS ON FREE‐LIVING TREBOUXIA DE PUYMALYAND PSEUDOTREBOUXIA ARCHIBALD, AND EVIDENCE THAT BOTH SYMBIONTS FROM XANTHORIA PARIETINA (L.) TH. FR. CAN BE FOUND FREE‐LIVING IN NATURE
Author(s) -
BUBRICK P.,
GALUN MARGALITH,
FRENSDORFF A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1984.tb03611.x
Subject(s) - biology , botany
S ummary The presence of free‐living Trebouxia and/or Pseudotrebouxia is documented. Several free‐living phycobionts were brought into culture and compared to the cultured Xanthoria parietina phycobiont. With the aid of both morphological and immunological criteria, we provide evidence that both the mycobiont and phycobiont of X. parietina can be found free‐living in nature. The potential for resynthesis between bionts under natural conditions is discussed.