Uptake and toxicity of manganese in epiphytic cyanolichens

Mn uptake from MnCl2 solution and chlorophyll fluorescence (as a selected vitality parameter) were studied in the epiphytic lichens Lobaria pulmonaria (tripartite, heteromerous lichen with the green alga Dictyochloropsis as primary photobiont and Nostoc in cephalodia), Nephroma helveticum (bipartite, heteromerous lichen with Nostoc photobiont) and Leptogium saturninum (bipartite, homoiomerous lichen with Nostoc photobiont). Extracellular adsorption and intracellular uptake of Mn increased in the order L. pulmonaria < N. helveticum < L. saturninum. Mn increasingly reduced the effective quantum yield of photosystem 2 (?2) in the same order. CaCl2 and MgCl2 alleviated the Mn-induced reduction of ?2. Moist thalli of...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation, Journal Citation; Tags: Environmental and Experimental Botany, chlorophyll fluorescence, heavy metal tolerance, intrathalline cation transfer, leptogium saturninum, All tags... lobaria pulmonaria, nephroma helveticum, Fewer tags