With apologies for cross posting I wanted to make you aware of the online publication of a Special Issue of New Phytologist on the Ecology and evolution of mycorrhizas.
The Editorial by Dickie et al. ‘Evolving insights to understanding mycorrhizas’ introduces the special issue and can be read for free here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.13290/full The special issue's full table of contents can be found here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.2015.205.issue-4/issuetoc and in summary below: Forum Editorial Evolving insights to understanding mycorrhizas (pages 1369–1374) Ian A. Dickie, Ian Alexander, Sarah Lennon, Maarja Öpik, Marc-André Selosse, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden and Francis M. Martin Commentary Priorities for research on priority effects (pages 1375–1377) David Johnson Moving beyond the black-box: fungal traits, community structure, and carbon sequestration in forest soils (pages 1378–1380) Christopher W. Fernandez and Peter G. Kennedy Letters How harmonious are arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses? Inconsistent concepts reflect different mindsets as well as results (pages 1381–1384) F. Andrew Smith and Sally E. Smith Plant root and mycorrhizal fungal traits for understanding soil aggregation (pages 1385–1388) Matthias C. Rillig, Carlos A. Aguilar-Trigueros, Joana Bergmann, Erik Verbruggen, Stavros D. Veresoglou and Anika Lehmann Parsing ecological signal from noise in next generation amplicon sequencing (pages 1389–1393) Nhu H. Nguyen, Dylan Smith, Kabir Peay and Peter Kennedy Fungal associations of basal vascular plants: reopening a closed book? (pages 1394–1398) William R. Rimington, Silvia Pressel, Jeffrey G. Duckett and Martin I. Bidartondo The fungal perspective of arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization in ‘nonmycorrhizal’ plants (pages 1399–1403) Ylva Lekberg, Søren Rosendahl and Pål Axel Olsson Profile Francis M. Martin (pages 1404–1405) Review Tansley reviews Mycorrhizal ecology and evolution: the past, the present, and the future (pages 1406–1423) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Francis M. Martin, Marc-André Selosse and Ian R. Sanders Tansley insights Towards a holistic understanding of the beneficial interactions across the Populus microbiome (pages 1424–1430) Stéphane Hacquard and Christopher W. Schadt Phytohormones as integrators of environmental signals in the regulation of mycorrhizal symbioses (pages 1431–1436) María J. Pozo, Juan A. López-Ráez, Concepción Azcón-Aguilar and José M. García-Garrido Partner selection in the mycorrhizal mutualism (pages 1437–1442) Gijsbert D. A. Werner and E. Toby Kiers Ectomycorrhizal fungi – potential organic matter decomposers, yet not saprotrophs (pages 1443–1447) Björn D. Lindahl and Anders Tunlid Interplant signalling through hyphal networks (pages 1448–1453) David Johnson and Lucy Gilbert Research reviews Local-scale biogeography and spatiotemporal variability in communities of mycorrhizal fungi (pages 1454–1463) Mohammad Bahram, Kabir G. Peay and Leho Tedersoo Research Rapid reports Endogone, one of the oldest plant-associated fungi, host unique Mollicutes-related endobacteria (pages 1464–1472) Alessandro Desirò, Antonella Faccio, Andres Kaech, Martin I. Bidartondo and Paola Bonfante Full papers Mycorrhizal phenotypes and the Law of the Minimum (pages 1473–1484) Nancy Collins Johnson, Gail W. T. Wilson, Jacqueline A. Wilson, R. Michael Miller and Matthew A. Bowker Host diversity affects the abundance of the extraradical arbuscular mycorrhizal network (pages 1485–1491) Daniel J. P. Engelmoer and E. Toby Kiers From mycoheterotrophy to mutualism: mycorrhizal specificity and functioning in Ophioglossum vulgatum sporophytes (pages 1492–1502) Katie J. Field, Jonathan R. Leake, Stefanie Tille, Kate E. Allinson, William R. Rimington, Martin I. Bidartondo, David J. Beerling and Duncan D. Cameron Preferential allocation, physio-evolutionary feedbacks, and the stability and environmental patterns of mutualism between plants and their root symbionts (pages 1503–1514) James D. Bever Order of arrival structures arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization of plants (pages 1515–1524) Gijsbert D. A. Werner and E. Toby Kiers See also the Commentary by David Johnson Carbon sequestration is related to mycorrhizal fungal community shifts during long-term succession in boreal forests (pages 1525–1536) Karina E. Clemmensen, Roger D. Finlay, Anders Dahlberg, Jan Stenlid, David A. Wardle and Björn D. Lindahl See also the Commentary by Christopher W. Fernandez and Peter G. Kennedy Exploring the transfer of recent plant photosynthates to soil microbes: mycorrhizal pathway vs direct root exudation (pages 1537–1551) Christina Kaiser, Matt R. Kilburn, Peta L. Clode, Lucia Fuchslueger, Marianne Koranda, John B. Cliff, Zakaria M. Solaiman and Daniel V. Murphy Horizontal transfer of carbohydrate metabolism genes into ectomycorrhizal Amanita (pages 1552–1564) Maryam Chaib De Mares, Jaqueline Hess, Dimitrios Floudas, Anna Lipzen, Cindy Choi, Megan Kennedy, Igor V. Grigoriev and Anne Pringle Host identity is a dominant driver of mycorrhizal fungal community composition during ecosystem development (pages 1565–1576) Laura B. Martínez-García, Sarah J. Richardson, Jason M. Tylianakis, Duane A. Peltzer and Ian A. Dickie Land-use intensity and host plant identity interactively shape communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots of grassland plants (pages 1577–1586) Kriszta Vályi, Matthias C. Rillig and Stefan Hempel Arctic fungal communities associated with roots of Bistorta vivipara do not respond to the same fine-scale edaphic gradients as the aboveground vegetation (pages 1587–1597) Sunil Mundra, Rune Halvorsen, Håvard Kauserud, Eike Müller, Unni Vik and Pernille B. Eidesen Fungi in the future: interannual variation and effects of atmospheric change on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities (pages 1598–1607) T. E. Anne Cotton, Alastair H. Fitter, R. Michael Miller, Alex J. Dumbrell and Thorunn Helgason Temporal patterns of orchid mycorrhizal fungi in meadows and forests as revealed by 454 pyrosequencing (pages 1608–1618) Jane Oja, Petr Kohout, Leho Tedersoo, Tiiu Kull and Urmas Kõljalg A continental view of pine-associated ectomycorrhizal fungal spore banks: a quiescent functional guild with a strong biogeographic pattern (pages 1619–1631) Sydney I. Glassman, Kabir G. Peay, Jennifer M. Talbot, Dylan P. Smith, Judy A. Chung, John W. Taylor, Rytas Vilgalys and Thomas D. Bruns Plant phosphorus acquisition in a common mycorrhizal network: regulation of phosphate transporter genes of the Pht1 family in sorghum and flax (pages 1632–1645) Florian Walder, Daphnée Brulé, Sally Koegel, Andres Wiemken, Thomas Boller and Pierre-Emmanuel Courty
