Plants, fungi and oomycetes: a 400-million year affair that shapes the biosphere

Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists

(2015) Annegret Kohler et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Mycorrhizal ecology and evolution: the past, the present, and the future

(2015) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ectomycorrhizal fungi and past high CO2 atmospheres enhance mineral weathering through increased below-ground carbon-energy fluxes

(2014) J. Quirk et al.   Biology Letters

Medicago truncatulasymbiosis mutants affected in the interaction with a biotrophic root pathogen

(2014) Thomas Rey et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Introduction to aVirtual Special Issueon phytopathogen effector proteins

(2014) Hannah Kuhn et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fungal associations of basal vascular plants: reopening a closed book?

(2014) William R. Rimington et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras

(2014) Dianne Edwards et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Fungal associations inHorneophyton lignerifrom the Rhynie Chert (c. 407 million year old) closely resemble those in extant lower land plants: novel insights into ancestral plant-fungus symbioses

(2014) Christine Strullu-Derrien et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

First evidence of mutualism between ancient plant lineages (Haplomitriopsida liverworts) and Mucoromycotina fungi and its response to simulated Palaeozoic changes in atmospheric CO2

(2014) Katie J. Field et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The role of forest trees and their mycorrhizal fungi in carbonate rock weathering and its significance for global carbon cycling

(2014) RACHEL M. S. THORLEY et al.   PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT

Effector MiSSP7 of the mutualistic fungus Laccaria bicolor stabilizes the Populus JAZ6 protein and represses jasmonic acid (JA) responsive genes

(2014) J. M. Plett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effector Specialization in a Lineage of the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen

(2014) S. Dong et al.   SCIENCE

Single Nucleus Genome Sequencing Reveals High Similarity among Nuclei of an Endomycorrhizal Fungus

(2014) Kui Lin et al.   PLoS Genetics

Contributions to the diversity in cryptogamic covers in the mid-Palaeozoic:Nematothallusrevisited

(2013) Dianne Edwards et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Carbon availability triggers the decomposition of plant litter and assimilation of nitrogen by an ectomycorrhizal fungus

(2013) F Rineau et al.   ISME Journal

Global sampling of plant roots expands the described molecular diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

(2013) Maarja Öpik et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Peronosporomycetes (Oomycota) from a Middle Permian Permineralised Peat within the Bainmedart Coal Measures, Prince Charles Mountains, Antarctica

(2013) Ben J. Slater et al.   PLoS One

Fungal symbioses in hornworts: a chequered history

(2013) A. Desiro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evolution of the plant–microbe symbiotic ‘toolkit’

(2013) Pierre-Marc Delaux et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Lineages of ectomycorrhizal fungi revisited: Foraging strategies and novel lineages revealed by sequences from belowground

(2013) Leho Tedersoo et al.   Fungal Biology Reviews

Evolution of trees and mycorrhizal fungi intensifies silicate mineral weathering

(2012) J. Quirk et al.   Biology Letters

A Common Signaling Process that Promotes Mycorrhizal and Oomycete Colonization of Plants

(2012) Ertao Wang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Surprisingly complex community discovered in the mid-Devonian fossil forest at Gilboa

(2012) William E. Stein et al.   NATURE

First plants cooled the Ordovician

(2012) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

The earliest records of internally stratified cyanobacterial and algal lichens from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland

(2012) Rosmarie Honegger et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Origin of strigolactones in the green lineage

(2012) Pierre-Marc Delaux et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic

(2012) P. Kenrick et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Paleozoic Origin of Enzymatic Lignin Decomposition Reconstructed from 31 Fungal Genomes

(2012) D. Floudas et al.   SCIENCE

Modeling the evolutionary rise of ectomycorrhiza on sub-surface weathering environments and the geochemical carbon cycle

(2011) L. Taylor et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

A Secreted Fungal Effector of Glomus intraradices Promotes Symbiotic Biotrophy

(2011) Silke Kloppholz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Pathogenomics of fungal plant parasites: what have we learnt about pathogenesis?

(2011) Sarah Maria Schmidt et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

The transcriptome of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices (DAOM 197198) reveals functional tradeoffs in an obligate symbiont

(2011) E. Tisserant et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Horizontal gene transfer facilitated the evolution of plant parasitic mechanisms in the oomycetes

(2011) T. A. Richards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolutionary phylogeny of the oomycete “fungi”

(2011) Gordon W. Beakes et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Gene Gain and Loss during Evolution of Obligate Parasitism in the White Rust Pathogen of Arabidopsis thaliana

(2011) Eric Kemen et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

A glimpse into the past of land plants and of their mycorrhizal affairs: from fossils to evo-devo

(2010) Paola Bonfante et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Presence of three mycorrhizal genes in the common ancestor of land plants suggests a key role of mycorrhizas in the colonization of land by plants

(2010) Bin Wang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish

(2010) T. W. Dahl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence of parasitic Oomycetes (Peronosporomycetes) infecting the stem cortex of the Carboniferous seed fern Lyginopteris oldhamia

(2010) C. Strullu-Derrien et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Signatures of Adaptation to Obligate Biotrophy in the Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis Genome

(2010) L. Baxter et al.   SCIENCE

Genome Evolution Following Host Jumps in the Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Lineage

(2010) S. Raffaele et al.   SCIENCE

Blurred boundaries: lifestyle lessons from ectomycorrhizal fungal genomes

(2010) Jonathan M. Plett et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS