“…Differences in spore germination, plant development, and plant morphology between axenic moss cultures and field-grown mosses may be due, besides obvious abiotic factors and speed of growth, to effects of the microbiome present only in the latter. Cross-kingdom and cross-clade signalling via small molecules can influence morphology of Sphagnum similar to P. patens (Kostka et al, 2016;Decker et al, 2017;Vesty et al, 2020).…”