In the 150 years since Schwendener, biologists have tried in vain to grow lichens in laboratories. Whenever they artificially united the fungus and the alga, the two partners would never fully recreate their natural structures. It was as if something was missing—and Spribille might have discovered it.
He has shown that the largest and most species-rich group of lichens are not alliances between two organisms, as every scientist since Schwendener has claimed. Instead, they’re alliances between three. All this time, a second type of fungus has been hiding in plain view.
“There’s been over 140 years of microscopy,” says Spribille. “The idea that there’s something so fundamental that people have been missing is stunning…”
Charles Cook
neat stuff OP. Sadly, this is Veeky Forums, meaning your good thread is going to be ignored for the retarded consciousness threads.
Connor Thompson
I read about this. Pretty cool actually. Makes one wonder what sort of things are possible by tweaking these organisms (given that there's toxic variants and non-toxic variants that aren't really understood yet).
Hunter King
Can someone tldr the link for me
2lazy but actually interested
Jayden Richardson
How the hell do they miss that?
Joshua Rodriguez
BASED SCIENTIFIC METHOD WINS AGAIN!
One of the fungus is hiding cells in the other or someshit. It sounds kind of analogous to chimera animals.
Jackson Martin
Biology is not my strong suit can someone explain to me why this is a big deal?
Nicholas Morales
Basically lichens are symbiotic fungi that are an alliance of three diffrent species.They also can do "agriculture", also useful in many ways.
OP, can they grow all kinds of lichens?
Nathaniel Murphy
Get a load of this butthurt faggot.
Jace Reed
>“The idea that there’s something so fundamental that people have been missing is stunning…”
Lichens is one of those things that NOBODY studies. If anything this is proof how the scientific method can fail if nobody cares, makes money, or is interested enough in a subject to cross examine research.
What are some other subjects that nobody studies? Might be a quick way to become famous.
Josiah Barnes
It's just interesting.
Cameron Watson
>Guy From a Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology on LICHENS >t-they're not alga+fungus! t-they're a-actually ALGA+2xFUNGUS!!! You could make a living writing clickbait articles, OP.
Samuel Martinez
Space weapons.
Samuel Reed
>intellectual anime posters.
Henry Long
kek, how are you going to be famous if nobody cares?
Christopher Sullivan
>OP, can they grow all kinds of lichens?
read the fucking link you shitstain
Anthony Morris
90% of all scientific studies are incorrect, only no one will repeat the study to debunk them.
Hudson Gonzalez
noone cares about lichen.
Landon Miller
the wolf is at your door
Dylan Martinez
Scientists don't care.
Pop scientists will care.
Robert Reyes
Wouldn't just taking some lechens and putting them in a bowl also get the third fungus?
Like they should have gotten it right just by pure accident
Jayden Cook
I like how scientific papers don't tell you which one is the amateur. It literally doesn't matter since the point is the research done, not so much who did it
Samuel Howard
his publicist released a statement earlier today specifically denying that he cares anything about lichen
