Are fungi-derived genomic regions related to antagonism towards fungi in mosses?

Land plants have been intimately associated with fungi over the course of their evolution. Because of their lack of sophisticated protective structures, early land plants would conceivably have required additional defense strategies against microbial pathogens, including various fungi. On the other hand, a symbiotic association between plants and fungi is instrumental to plant adaptation to terrestrial environments (Selosse & Le Tacon, 1998; Bidartondo et al., 2011; Martin et al., 2017).