Host Species-Microbiome Interactions Contribute to Sphagnum Moss Growth Acclimation to Warming.

ABSTRACT: Sphagnum moss is the dominant plant genus in northern peatlands responsible for long-term carbon accumulation. Sphagnum hosts diverse microbial communities (microbiomes), and its phytobiome (plant host + constituent microbiome + environment) plays a key role in nutrient acquisition along with carbon cycling. Climate change can modify the Sphagnum-associated microbiome, resulting in enhanced host growth and thermal acclimation as previously shown in warming experiments. However, the extent of microbiome benefits to the host and the influence of host-microbe specificity on Sphagnum thermal acclimation remain unclear. Here, we extracted Sphagnum microbiomes from five donor species of four peatland warming experiments across a latitudinal gradient and applied those microbiomes to three germ-fr

SUBMITTER: Zivkovic T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11837242 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature