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. […]

Finally, the study first completed by Nasim Rahmatpour for her Ph.D. and then picked up by former postdoc Niki Patel and current Ph.D. student Vidya Vuruputoor is now published in the New Phytologist! Amazing study highlighting the “Immediate premeiotic transcriptomic effects following nonchemically induced whole genome duplication in the moss Funaria hygrometrica” pdf  Congratulations to […]

Brenden Thomson earned his MSc degree having completed his thesis on the phylogenetic diversity of Physcomitrium (Bryopsida) win North America. Well done and congratulations.