Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15967-6, published online 24 April 2020.

The original version of this Article omitted a reference to previous work in ‘Leebens-Mack, J.H. et al. One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants. Nature 574, 679–685 (2019)’. This has been added as reference 28 in the second sentence of the “Mycorrhizae-like fungal origin of land plant macro2 gene” section of the “Results”: with the PpMACRO2 protein sequence (Genbank accession number: XP_024388278) as query, we performed a BLAST search of the NCBI non-redundant (nr) protein sequence database, the 1000 plants project (OneKP) and other resources, including the recently published genomes of hornworts (Anthoceros angustus), ferns (Azolla filiculoides and Salvinia cucullata) and charophytes (e.g., Chara braunii, Spirogloea muscicola, Mesotaenium endlicherianum, Mesostigma viride, and Chlorokybus atmophyticus)23–28. This has been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.