Popular / accessible

Simard, S. W. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. Knopf, 2021.
Selosse, M.-A. Jamais seul. Ces microbes qui construisent les plantes, les animaux et les civilisations. Actes Sud, 2017.
Wohlleben, P. The Hidden Life of Trees. Greystone, 2015. (Note: read alongside Karst et al. 2023 below for balance.)
Sheldrake, M. Entangled Life. Random House, 2020.

Textbooks

Smith, S. E. & Read, D. Mycorrhizal Symbiosis, 3rd ed. Academic Press, 2008. The canonical reference.
Allen, M. F. The Ecology of Mycorrhizae. Cambridge University Press, 1991. Classic ecological treatment.
Newman, M. E. J. Networks: An Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2010. For the graph-theory background of Module 4.

Simard, S. W. et al. Net transfer of carbon between ectomycorrhizal tree species in the field. Nature 388, 579–582 (1997).
Beiler, K. J. et al. Architecture of the wood-wide web: Rhizopogon spp. genets link multiple Douglas-fir cohorts. New Phytologist 185, 543–553 (2010).
Klein, T. et al. Belowground carbon trade among tall trees in a temperate forest. Science 352, 342–344 (2016).
Pickles, B. J. et al. Transfer of ¹³C between paired Douglas-fir seedlings reveals plant kinship effects and uptake of exudates by ectomycorrhizas. New Phytologist 214, 400–411 (2017).

Oldroyd, G. E. D. Speak, friend, and enter: signalling systems in the establishment of symbioses. Nat. Rev. Microbiol. 11, 252–263 (2013).
Bonfante, P. & Genre, A. Mechanisms underlying beneficial plant-fungus interactions in mycorrhizal symbiosis. Nat. Commun. 1, 48 (2010).
Genre, A. et al. Short-chain chitin oligomers from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi trigger nuclear Ca²⁺ spiking. New Phytologist 198, 190–202 (2013).
Akiyama, K., Matsuzaki, K. & Hayashi, H. Plant sesquiterpenes induce hyphal branching in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Nature 435, 824–827 (2005).
Maillet, F. et al. Fungal lipochitooligosaccharide symbiotic signals in arbuscular mycorrhiza. Nature 469, 58–63 (2011).

Kiers, E. T. et al. Reciprocal rewards stabilize cooperation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis. Science 333, 880–882 (2011).
Werner, G. D. A. et al. Evolution of microbial markets. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 111, 1237–1244 (2014).
Whiteside, M. D. et al. Mycorrhizal fungi respond to resource inequality by moving phosphorus from rich to poor patches across networks. Curr. Biol. 29, 2043–2050 (2019).

Karst, J., Jones, M. D. & Hoeksema, J. D. Positive citation bias and overinterpreted results lead to misinformation on common mycorrhizal networks in forests. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 7, 501–511 (2023).
Henriksson, N. et al. The mycorrhizal tragedy of the commons. Ecology Letters 26, 484–497 (2023).

Kornberg, A., Rao, N. N. & Ault-Riché, D. Inorganic polyphosphate: a molecule of many functions. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 68, 89–125 (1999).
Hothorn, M. et al. Catalytic core of a membrane-associated eukaryotic polyphosphate polymerase. Science 324, 513–516 (2009).

Villani, C. Hypocoercivity. Memoirs AMS, 2009.
Villani, C. Optimal Transport: Old and New. Springer Grundlehren, 2009.
Otto, F. & Villani, C. Generalization of an inequality by Talagrand and links with the logarithmic Sobolev inequality. J. Funct. Anal. 173, 361–400 (2000).

Barabási, A.-L. & Albert, R. Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science 286, 509–512 (1999).
Cohen, R., Erez, K., Ben-Avraham, D. & Havlin, S. Resilience of the internet to random breakdowns. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4626–4628 (2000).
Cohen, R., Erez, K., Ben-Avraham, D. & Havlin, S. Breakdown of the internet under intentional attack. Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3682–3685 (2001).
Newman, M. E. J., Strogatz, S. H. & Watts, D. J. Random graphs with arbitrary degree distributions and their applications. Phys. Rev. E 64, 026118 (2001).

Soudzilovskaia, N. A. et al. Global mycorrhizal plant distribution linked to terrestrial carbon stocks. Nat. Commun. 10, 5077 (2019).
Tedersoo, L. et al. Global patterns of ectomycorrhizal introductions. Nat. Comms. 14, 5113 (2023).