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Invited Article | Open Access

Endolichenic fungi: the lesser known fungal associates of lichens

Trichur S. Suryanarayanana( )Nagamani Thirunavukkarasub
Vivekananda Institute of Tropical Mycology, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Chennai, India
PG & Research department of Botany, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College, Chennai, India
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Abstract

Lichens are the result of a stable mutualism between a fungal and a photosynthesising partner (alga or cyanobacterium). In addition to the fungal partner in this mutualism, lichens are associated with endolichenic fungi which reside inside their thalli. The endolichenic fungi appear to have evolved with the lichen and many of them are a source of novel metabolites vested with unique bioactivities. There is very little information on the biology of endolichenic fungi and their interactions with the other components of a lichen microbiome. There is an urgent need to understand these aspects of endolichenic fungi such that their ecology and economic potential are known more completely. The current knowledge on endolichenic fungi is reviewed here.

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Suryanarayanan TS, Thirunavukkarasu N. Endolichenic fungi: the lesser known fungal associates of lichens. Mycology, 2017, 8(3): 189-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/21501203.2017.1352048

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Received: 15 March 2017
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