Heavy metal contamination in soil is of great environmental concern due to rapid urbanization and industrialization in China. Phytoremediation technology is a feasible way to remove heavy metals from farmland, especially for cadmium pollution. Application of plant growth regulators (PGRs) is...

　　From October 19 to 20, 2019, the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Botanical Garden Working Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) and the 2019 Academic Forum of the Botanical Garden, CAS were successfully held at the Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

　　Heavy metal pollution of farmland in China poses a serious threat to food security and public health, which has resulted in widespread public concern. Therefore, it is an urgent task to control heavy metal pollution of farmland to reduce the risk of excessive heavy metal in crops. Among all ...

　　From October 21 to 22, Laos delegation of the "2019 Seminar on Environmental Protection and Assessment" organized by Hainan University visited South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) for academic exchange and cooperation. Deputy director of Project Management & Foreign Affairs Department, Ms. YU...

　　While GM crops of past years contain one to few traits, the continuous discovery of new trait genes would mean that over time, crops could end up with a large number of transgene insertions. If they were dispersed throughout the genome, extensive breeding would be needed to reassemble all of...