Dirick L., Y. Liu, S. Dong, J. Yu, L. Ouerdane, C. Curie & B. Goffinet. 2025. Multiple independent acquisitions of a metallophore-synthesis gene by plants through horizontal microbial gene transfer. Nature Communications 16: 8339. pdf  Google scholar Abstract reads: The evolution of land plants is marked by major innovations enhancing their vegetative and reproductive fitness. […]

Dong S., S. Wang, L. Li, J. Yu, Y. Zhang, J.-Y. Xue, H. Chen, J. Ma, Y. Zeng, Y. Cai, W. Huang, J. Li, Y. Yao, R. Hu, T. Zhao, J.C. Villarreal A., L. Dirick, L. Liu, M. Ignatov, J. Ruan, Y. He, H. Wang, B. Xu, J. Wegrzyn, D. W. Stevenson, K. S. Renzaglia, […]

The American Bryological and Lichenological Society announced the awards for the best papers published in The Bryologist in 2024 (Volume 127) and awarded the SULLIVANT AWARD (for the best bryological paper) to our checklist: Buck W.R. & B. Goffinet. 2024. A new checklist of the mosses of the continental United States and Canada. The Bryologist […]

Atwood, J., WR. Buck & B. Goffinet. 2025. Bryomyces, a genus described from foliar moss gemmae, is an earlier name for Plenogemma (Orthotrichaceae). Novon 33: 115–121. Abstract reads: Bryomyces Miq. and Phragmidiolum Müll. Hal., originally described as genera of endophytic bryophilous ascomycetes, refer instead to foliar moss gemmae based on a comparative assessment of their […]

Milis A., P. Mäder, M. De Haan, P. Ballings, I. Van Der Beeten, B. Goffinet & A. Vanderpoorten. 2025. Time to spice-up paleoecological records with bryophyte spores. Trends in Plant Sciences in press Abstract reads: Paleovegetation reconstructions rely virtually exclusively on inferences from vascular plants, particularly pollen grains, ignoring other components of the land flora. […]