Poaceae is the most economically important vascular plant family, containing many dominant species in various biomes. Since C4 photosynthetic pathway was discovered in 1966 in sugarcane, Poaceae has been focused to study ecophysiological, geographic and evolutionary differences between C3 an...

　　Recently, the monograph named Flora of the South China Sea Islands was published by the China Forestry Publishing House. The editor-in-chief of the monograph was professor XING Fuwu of South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SCBG).
　　The South China Sea Islands, consiste...

　　Physiological coordination between plant height and xylem hydraulic traits is aligned with habitat water availability across Earth’s terrestrial biomes, according to a new study.
　　Ecologists from the South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences, conclude that such coo...

　　Conventionally, transgenic traits are introduced into transformable varieties before introgressing them out to field cultivars. However, for diploids and diploid-like allopolyploid plants, the ‘n’ number of unlinked transgenic loci can be assorted as homozygous into a single genome at a pr...

　　Plants are essential resources for the earth, and human survival. Many plant species are threatened due to human disturbance and global change. There are more than 380,000 vascular plant species in the world and approximately 31,150 in China. Many plant species are threatened with extinction...