Interaction section
‘Interaction’ is at the heart of the New Phytologist approach
to science. An integrative philosophy pervades much of the research
published, and this is nowhere clearer than in the direct interactions
between plants and other organisms. Mycorrhizal biology is vital to
the journal, and the newest editor to join the section, Iver Jakobsen,
is testament to this commitment. Fungi also appear in the many papers
related to interactions between plants and pathogens, and these two
strands of interest will be brought together at the New Phytologist
Trust’s Symposium in 2006, ‘Genomic approaches to fungal
biology’ in association with the 9th International Fungal Biology
Conference.
Basic questions relating to parasitism, plant-bacterial interactions,
nutrition and the rhizospere, plant-animal interactions - these all
enrich the section, have crossover with the other sections of the journal,
and contribute to a depth of scholarship. This exciting range of topics
is shown in the collection of papers highlighted below.
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Interaction Editors
Call for papers
Related meetings
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Forum
special in issue 174/2: Digging deeper into mycorrhizal research
Ectomycorrhizal
fungi - fairy rings and the wood-wide web a commentary by Martina
Peter on the research paper by Lian et al.,
Tricholoma
matsutake in a natural Pinus densiflora forest:
correspondence between above- and below-ground genets, association
with
multiple host trees and alteration of existing ectomycorrhizal
communities
In 170:3 (2006) The
surprising diversity of ascomycetous mycorrhizas by
Keith Egger highlights the findings of Tedersoo et al., in their
research paper also in this issue entitled Molecular
and morphological diversity of pezizalean ectomycorrhiza.
Symposium: Impact of genomics on fungal biology
The 16th New Phytologist Symposium will be held jointly with
the 9th International Fungal Biology Conference in September 2006,
Nancy, France,
and organized by Francis Martin and Nick Talbot. Further
details.
 Poster prize sponsored by New Phytologist at Mycorrhiza:
Systems Research from Genes to
Communities meeting 4
- 9 March, 2006, Monte Verità, Ascona,
Switzerland.
A transgenic petunia system to screen for
regulatory mutants in mycorrhiza-specific phosphate transport by Sarah
Wegmüller. View poster [PDF]
Interaction Editors
Francis
Martin, INRA-Nancy, France
Ian Alexander,
Aberdeen, UK
Alastair
Fitter, York, UK
Natalia Requena,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Marc-Andre
Selosse, Montpellier, France
Nicholas
Talbot, Exeter, UK
Call for papers
New Phytologist invites papers on all aspects of plant interactions.
This includes research on multitrophic systems, mycorrhizas and pathogens,
and nitrogen fixing symbioses.
Recent publications in this field that we wish to build on include:
Evaluation of natural and synthetic stimulants of plant immunity by
microarray technology
Uta von Rad, Martin J. Mueller, Jörg Durner
New Phytologist 2005 165:1 p. 191
Relationships among arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, vascular plants
and environmental conditions in oak savannas
Frank C. Landis, Andrea Gargas, Thomas J. Givnish
New Phytologist 2004 164:3 p. 493
A meta-analysis of mycorrhizal responses to nitrogen, phosphorus,
and atmospheric CO2 in field studies
Kathleen K. Treseder
New Phytologist 2004 164:2 p. 347
The response of the poplar transcriptome to wounding and subsequent
infection by a viral pathogen
Caroline M. Smith, Marisa Rodriguez-Buey, Jan Karlsson, Malcolm M.
Campbell
New Phytologist 2004 164:1 p. 123
Rapid analysis of legume root nodule development using confocal microscopy
Janine G. Haynes, Kirk J. Czymmek, Carol A. Carlson, Harita Veereshlingam,
Rebecca Dickstein, D. Janine Sherrier
New Phytologist 2004 163:3 p. 661
Empirical evidence of spatial thresholds to control invasion of fungal
parasites and saprotrophs
Wilfred Otten, Douglas J. Bailey, Christopher A. Gilligan
New Phytologist 2004 163:1 p. 125
Symbiotic sequencing for the Populus mesocosm
F. Martin, G. A. Tuskan, S. P. DiFazio, P. Lammers, G. Newcombe, G.
K. Podila
New Phytologist 2004 161:2 p. 330
Isolation and analysis of a symbiosis-regulated and Ras-interacting
vesicular assembly protein gene from the ectomycorrhizal fungus Laccaria
bicolor
Sathish Sundaram, Joshua H. Brand, Matthew J. Hymes, Shivanand Hiremath,
Gopi K. Podila
New Phytologist 2004 161:2 p. 529
The rice blast pathosystem as a case study for the development of
new tools and raw materials for genome analysis of fungal plant pathogens
Thomas K. Mitchell, Michael R. Thon, Jun-Seop Jeong, Doug Brown, Jixin
Deng, Ralph A. Dean
New Phytologist 2003 159:1 p. 53
Intraspecific comparative genomics to identify avirulence genes from
Phytophthora
Jorunn I. B. Bos, Miles Armstrong, Stephen C. Whisson, Trudy A. Torto,
Mildred Ochwo, Paul R. J. Birch, Sophien Kamoun
New Phytologist 2003 159:1 p. 63
Analysis of expressed sequence tags from the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes
Laccaria bicolor and Pisolithus microcarpus
Martina Peter, Pierre-Emmanuel Courty, Annegret Kohler, Christine Delaruelle,
David Martin, Denis Tagu, Pascale Frey-Klett, Sébastien Duplessis,
Michel Chalot, Gopi Podila, Francis Martin
New Phytologist 2003 159:1 p. 117
Defining new roles for plant and rhizobial molecules in sole and mixed
plant cultures involving symbiotic legumes
Felix D. Dakora
New Phytologist 2003 158:1 p. 39
Mycorrhizas
and nutrient cycling in ecosystems – a journey towards
relevance?
D. J. Read, J. Perez-Moreno
New Phytologist 2003 157:3 p. 475
Carbon partitioning in a split-root system of arbuscular mycorrhizal
plants is fungal and plant species dependent
Sylvain Lerat, Line Lapointe, Sylvain Gutjahr, Yves Piché, Horst
Vierheilig
New Phytologist 2003 157:3 p. 589
Coevolution of roots and mycorrhizas of land plants
Mark C Brundrett
New Phytologist 2002 154:2 p. 275
Related meetings
XIII International
Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
July 21 to July 27, 2007
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