WELCOME to the 3rd newsletter for 2021!

We are very pleased to release the sixth newsletter (Vol. 2, Issue 3) of the International Mycorrhiza Society (IMS).

Many thanks to all who contributed to this newsletter, especially to César Marín, the newsletter editor, the topic editors Justine Karst, Jason Hoeksema, and Jonathan Plett and

In this issue, we’d like to thank artist, Heiko Sievers, for the use of the image Talk, talk for the cover of this newsletter.
This work is pencil and watercolor on paper, h 32 x w 24 cm, 2010
You can see this work on Heiko’s blog
Mushrooms of the day http://mushroom-of-the-day.blogspot.com/2018/01/repost-0329.html?m=0
His Facebook page with more sketches and drawing is
https://www.facebook.com/SieversHeiko/  @sieversheiko

Many thanks to a wide range of mycorrhizal researchers who have written interesting highlights about their own ongoing mycorrhizal research, and/or to those that have appeared in our YouTube interviews
Please contact us if you wish to be interviewed or to write a short article for an upcoming IMS newsletter (cesar.marin@uoh.cl).

Call for Topic Editor

In addition to the current topics our Newsletter touches (Ecology, Evolution,Molecular biology), we are looking for a mycorrhizal Applications Editor.

Your duties will be to coordinate articles in this research area (approach researchers to write a short article and/or approach them for being interviewed about their recent mycorrhizal work), promote the IMS Newsletter, and you can vote for the top 10 mycorrhiza papers.

If you have interest and experience in the applications of mycorrhizal research (agriculture, forestry, remediation, etc), please contact César Marín(cesar.marin@postgrado.uach.cl).

What’s in this quarter’s newsletter?

• a detailed editorial, contributed by IMS President Marcel van der Heijden and IMS Newsletter Editor Cesar Marin, reflecting on the success of the newsletter, call for a topic editor,  and summaries of the newsletter articles, research, and upcoming events.
• a list of the top ten mycorrhizal papers from across different disciplines and published in the last few months, selected by a panel of experts.
• two short research articles/commentaries providing new research insights, including, the mutualism to parasitism continuum under different soil nutrient conditions (Lekberg and Waller), and the effects of mycorrhizal fungi and networks on large trees survival and their resistance to native pests and pathogens (Germain and Lutz)
• links to three YouTube video interviews — Mathu Malar on the genome of Geosiphon pyriformis and the
  emergence of the AM symbiosis, Aidee Guzman on how crop diversity enriches AMF communities in California (article No. 9 in our Top 10 vote), and the last one with Laura Martinez-Suz on ectomycorrhizas, forest recovery, and tipping points.
• Other items include the Tools list, IMS news (including membership reminder), important events.

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