Rhodomyrtus tomentosa (Aiton) Hassk., also knownd as Rose myrtle, is distributed in the hilly areas of Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Lingnan region. R. tomentosa is a medicinal and ornamental plant, and its sweet fruit is edible.
　　Liyun Zhao, Ph.D. student of the Natural Product...

　　Guettarda speciosa is a dominant woody plant on Xisha Islands, widely distributing on tropical and subtropical oceanic islands. As a typical island plant, it is a favorable species to study evolutional ecology questions relating to plants long distance dispersal. According our research data ...

　　Following allopolyploid formation, extensive genome evolution occurs, with the eventual loss of many homeologous gene copies. Although this process of diploidization has occurred many times independently, the evolutionary forces determining the probability and rate of gene loss remain poorly...

　　Lowland tropical forests with chronic nitrogen (N) deposition and/or abundant N-fixing organisms are commonly rich in N relative to other nutrients. The tropical N richness introduces a paradoxical relationship in which many tropical forests sustain high rates of asymbiotic N fixation despit...

　　The pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae comprises c. 108 genera and c. 2300 species of trees, shrubs and lianas, and the largest number of species occurs in tropical Asia, followed by tropical Americaand Africa. Being the largest family in the early-divergent Magnoliales, Annonacea...