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PRONUNCIATION OF PHYCOBIONT

phycobiont  [ˌfaɪkəʊˈbaɪɒnt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHYCOBIONT

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Phycobiont is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PHYCOBIONT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

phycobiont

Lichen

A lichen is a composite organism consisting of a fungus and a photosynthetic partner growing together in a symbiotic relationship. The photobiont is usually either a green alga or cyanobacterium. The morphology, physiology and biochemistry of lichens are very different from those of the isolated fungus and alga in culture. Lichens occur in some of the most extreme environments on Earth—arctic tundra, hot deserts, rocky coasts, and toxic slag heaps. However, they are also abundant as epiphytes on leaves and branches in rain forests and temperate woodland, on bare rock, including walls and gravestones, and on exposed soil surfaces in otherwise mesic habitats. The roofs of many buildings have lichens growing on them. Lichens are widespread and may be long-lived; however, many are also vulnerable to environmental disturbance, and may be useful to scientists in assessing the effects of air pollution, ozone depletion, and metal contamination. Lichens have been used in making dyes and perfumes, as well as in traditional medicines. It is estimated that 6% of Earth's land surface is covered by lichen. In Scotland, the dye-producing lichens are known as crottle.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHYCOBIONT


aerobiont
ˌɛərəˈbaɪɒnt
Beaumont
ˈbəʊmɒnt
biont
ˈbaɪɒnt
cryptobiont
ˌkrɪptəʊˈbaɪɒnt
dinmont
ˈdɪnmɒnt
diplobiont
ˌdɪpləʊˈbaɪɒnt
Egmont
ˈɛɡmɒnt
equant
ˈiːkwɒnt
font
fɒnt
halobiont
ˌhæləʊˈbaɪɒnt
haplobiont
ˌhæpləʊˈbaɪɒnt
Hellespont
ˈhɛlɪˌspɒnt
mycobiont
ˌmaɪkəʊˈbaɪɒnt
piedmont
ˈpiːdmɒnt
quant
kwɒnt
saprobiont
ˌsæprəʊˈbɑɪɒnt
suivante
swiːˈvɒnt
symbiont
ˈsɪmbɪˌɒnt
Vermont
vɜːˈmɒnt
want
wɒnt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHYCOBIONT

phycobilin
phycocyan
phycocyanin
phycoerythrin
phycological
phycologist
phycology
phycomycete
phycomycetous
phycophaein
phycoxanthin
Phyfe
phyla
phylacteric
phylacterical
phylacteries
phylactery
phylactic
phylae
phylar

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHYCOBIONT

anaerobiont
battlefront
beachfront
confront
Du Mont
eobiont
forefront
front
home front
lakefront
oceanfront
parasymbiont
riverfront
Santos-Dumont
storefront
up front
upfront
waterfront
wavefront
wont

Synonyms and antonyms of phycobiont in the English dictionary of synonyms

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TRANSLATION OF PHYCOBIONT

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phycobiont
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phycobiont
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of phycobiont

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHYCOBIONT»

The term «phycobiont» is barely ever used and occupies the 200.865 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHYCOBIONT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about phycobiont

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHYCOBIONT»

Discover the use of phycobiont in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to phycobiont and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Experimental and Conceptual Plant Pathology
discriminate between potential phycobionts probably extends beyond the level of phycobiont genus. Selectivity has been examined during the resynthesis in vitro of lichens. In these studies, cultures of separately grown mycobionts and ...
W. M. Hess, D. J. Weber, 1988
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Handbook of Cyanobacteria
fluorescein-labelled ABP from X. parietina could bind to the cell walls of the phycobiont only when the phycobiont possessed urease activity in its cell walls. Due to the binding there is an inhibition in both the arginase activity of the ABP and ...
T. A. Sarma, 2012
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New Scientist
Efforts have previously been made to investigate the exact nature of the relationship between the algal partner (sometimes called the phycobiont) and the fungus (mycobiont) by separating them and then trying to get them to combine again.
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CRC Handbook of Lichenology
Parra, O. O. and Redon, J., Isolation of Heterococcus caespitosus Vicher, phycobiont of Verrucaria maura Wahlenb., Bol. Soc. Biol. Conception. 51, 219, 1977. 42. Santesson, R., Foliicolous lichens. I., Symb. Bot. Upsal., 12, 1, 1952. 43 .
Margalith Galun, 1988
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Symbioses and Stress: Joint Ventures in Biology
It is the concept of mutual benefits in this partnership that spring to mind whenever lichens are cited as examples of symbiosis. This concept does not conjure up a sense of stressful relationships between phycobiont and mycobiont. This view is ...
Joseph Seckbach, Martin Grube, 2010
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Textbook of Environmental Microbiology
The association can be as unspecific as having taxonomically distant genera belonging both to the algal and fungal partners. The metabolically tight association between phycobiont and mycobiont in lichens make them to survive and grow in ...
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Krishna's Diversity of Microbes, Fungi & Lichens
In a lichen, the fungal partner is termed the mycobiont and the algal or cyanobacterial partner, the phycobiont The remarkable aspect of this mutualistic association is that its morphology and metabolic relationships are so constant that lichens ...
Dr. D. K. Awasthi
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Antarctic Communities: Species, Structure, and Survival
32 The delicate stability of lichen symbiosis: comparative studies on the photosynthesis of the lichen Mastodia tesselata and its free-living phycobiont, the alga Prasiola crispa A. H. L. HUISKES. N J. M. G REM MEN AND J. W. FRANCKE  ...
Bruno Battaglia, José Valencia, D. W. H. Walton, 1997
9
Algal Symbiosis: A Continuum of Interaction Strategies
Although there are some 500 genera and 17,000-18,000 species of lichens, only 8% of them contain a cyanobacterium as a phycobiont (Fogg et al., 1973; Millbank, 1974, 1977). Furthermore, though eight genera of cyanobacteria are ...
Lynda J. Goff, 2011
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An Introduction to Phycology
The mycobiont appears to have regulatory control over glutamine synthetase, as normal activity of this enzyme resumes when the phycobiont is isolated from the fungus (Sampaio et al., 1979). Many species of lichen reproduce by vegetative ...
G. R. South, A. Whittick, 2009

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHYCOBIONT»

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Weathered by nature
They are composite organisms consisting of symbiotic pairing between an alga (phycobiont) and fungus (mycobiont). The hilltop is colonised ... «Deccan Herald, Aug 14»

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