New PhytologistVolume 214, Issue 4 p. 1763-1763 CorrigendumFree Access Corrigendum This article corrects the following: Life's a beach – the colonization of the terrestrial environment Andrew R. G. Plackett, Juliet C. Coates, Volume 212Issue 4New Phytologist pages: 831-835 First Published online: November 8, 2016 First published: 09 May 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14455 Author for correspondence: Andrew R. G. Plackett Tel: +44 (0)1865 275113 Email: andrew.plackett@plants.ox.ac.uk AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat New Phytologist 212 (2016), 831–835 Since its publication, it has been drawn to our attention that there are errors in the description of the mycorrhizal types in the article by Plackett & Coates (2016). The corrected text is shown below. We apologize to our readers for these mistakes. References Plackett ARG, Coates JC. 2016. Life's a beach – the colonization of the terrestrial environment. New Phytologist 212: 831– 835. Vesty EF, Saidi Y, Moody LA, Holloway D, Whitbread A, Needs S, Choudhary A, Burns B, McLeod D, Bradshaw SJ et al. 2016. The decision to germinate is regulated by divergent molecular networks in spores and seeds. New Phytologist 211: 952– 966. Corrected text: pp. 832 and 833. Embryophytes did not colonize the land by themselves, as evidenced by fossil assemblies such as the Rhynie Chert (Fig. 1), which preserves diversity around a geothermal spring that included lichen, algae, fungi and arthropods alongside cryptogams. Such highly preserved fossils demonstrate that symbiotic relationships between plants and fungi (arbuscular mycorrhizal associations) were already established by this time. Our understanding of early land plant evolution has improved dramatically thanks to the detailed investigation of the moss Physcomitrella patens and liverworts in the genus Marchantia. These were repeatedly highlighted throughout the meeting as tools to understand the evolution of important embryophyte characters, such as rhizoids (Liam Dolan, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK), stomata (Julie Gray and Bobby Caine, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK), spore germination (Eleanor Vesty, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK; Vesty et al., 2016) and arbuscular mycorrhizal associations (Katie Field; Aisling Cooke, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK). The limitations of these bryophyte models were also highlighted, focussing on the debatable function of stomata (which are absent from liverworts) in P. patens and the failure of the predominant model liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha, to form arbuscular mycorrhizal associations. Importantly, the meeting also focussed beyond the bryophyte world to colonization by vascular plants (tracheophytes). Volume214, Issue4June 2017Pages 1763-1763 ReferencesRelatedInformation