Interactions between mosses (Bryophyta) and fungi

TL;DR: In this article , the authors carried out a review to identify outstanding challenges and future perspectives in bryology, and identified 50 fundamental questions that are critical in advancing the discipline, which is referred to as horizon scanning.

TL;DR: A pharmacological screening of a bryophyte extract library using a phenotypic cell‐based assay revealing microtubules, centrosomes and DNA reveals two unusual phenotypes of moss extracts.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that Hylocomium splendens hosts an immense diversity of fungi and demonstrates that this community is structured in part by forest age, and as such is highly influenced by modern forestry practices.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the nests represent a niche, where microbial species can adapt and diverge from the communities in the surrounding soils, and contribute to the understanding of the composition and function of microbiomes in fragmented habitats.

TL;DR: The results show that major evolutionary events are often associated with changes in PCW composition, and that the acquisition of xyloglucan may have been a pre-adaptive advantage that allowed colonization of land.

TL;DR: In this paper, the production and further fate of secondary metabolites produced by Sphagnum representatives are reviewed, with special reference to their ecological significance for the sphagnum plants and for the bog ecosystem as a whole.

TL;DR: Bryophytes are involved in a variety of competitive, parasitic, symbiotic, mutualistic and as yet unspecifiable interactions with vascular plants, algae, fungi, lichens, cyanobactcria and autotrophic and heterotrophic bacteria, in only very few cases have these interactions been analysed functionally.

TL;DR: Isolates belonging to Mycelium radicis atrovirens, including Phialocephala fortinii, were the most prevalent in all the five bait plants.