Lichens – growing greenhouses en miniature

Authors:

Martin Grube1

doi: 10.15698/mic2021.03.743
Volume 8, pp. 65 to 68, published 01/03/2021.

Affiliations:

1 Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.

Keywords: 

fungi, microbiome, symbiosis, complexity, poikilohydry.

Corresponding Author(s):

Martin Grube, Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria; martin.grube@uni-graz.at

Conflict of interest statement:

The author declares no conflict of interest.

Please cite this article as:

Martin Grube (2021). Lichens – growing greenhouses en miniature. Microbial Cell 8(3): 65-68. doi: 10.15698/mic2021.03.743

© 2021 Grube. This is an open-access article released under the terms of the Creative Com-mons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows the unre-stricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medi-um, provided the original author and source are acknowledged.

Abstract:

This commentary article provides an overview on different aspects of lichen biology and the remarkable symbiotic association between fungi and algae.