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Mycorrhizae and Land Plants – An Update

by Roberto
I am fortunate that among the first impressions of my day, I take in this view of land plants. Given my proclivity for microbiology my mind inevitably wonders to what I cannot see, the underground network of filamentous fungi connecting the roots of those plants, the mycorrhizae.

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in reply to Small Things Considered

jmeppley (he/him)
jmeppley (he/him)
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So if you view chloroplasts as high-derived cyanobacteria, then plants are just big lichen?
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Small Things Considered
Small Things Considered
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neat idea, but no, sorry. lichens are symbioses of cyanobacteria and/or algae with fungi, while plants are symbioses of cyanobacteria-turned-organelle with, well, plants. and plants are not closer related to fungi than both are related to animals.
in reply to Small Things Considered

jmeppley (he/him)
jmeppley (he/him)
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I was thinking about the plant's symbiosis with the mycorrhizae as a parallel to lichen.

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