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2021-04-15Tropical Forest Soils Capture CO2 Under Elevated Nitrogen DepositionIn a new study, Dr. LU Xiankai and his colleagues from the South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) found that tropical forests can capture carbon dioxide (CO2) into soils and thus reduce emitted CO2. But how exactly do tropical forest soils capture atmospheric CO2?Read More
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2021-04-01Multiple environmental factors regulate the large-scale patterns of plant water use efficiency and nitrogen availability across China’s forestsAuthor: KUANG Yuanwen E-mail: kuangyw@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abe3bb Online time: 2021-2-22 Global changes have profoundly effects on plant water use efficiency (WUE) and N availability (NA) in forests. Large-scale geographic gradients provide an opportunity to determine how global changes affect plant WUE and NA.Read More
Recently, researchers led by Dr. KUANG Yuanwen from Southern China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ... -
2021-03-26Canopy mitigates the effects of nitrogen deposition on soil carbon-related processes in a subtropical forestAuthor: KUANG Yuanwen E-mail: kuangyw@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143847 Online time: 2020-11-26 Anthropogenic nitrogen (N) emission and subsequent N deposition have greatly affected the carbon (C) cycles of terrestrial ecosystems.Read More
Researchers led by Dr. KUANG Yuanwen from South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Science found that canopy N addition significantly reduced soil organic carbon content and the macroaggregation fra... -
2021-03-16Researchers reveal host preference and specialization toward fungal assemblages in mycoheterotrophsAuthor: ZHAO Zhongtao E-mail: zhzht621@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00874-x Online time: 06 January 2021 Mycoheterotrophs are a group of plants having lost chlorophylls, parasitic on mycorrhizal fungi. They are the ‘aliens’ of the plant world because of their rarity and weird looks. Non-green full mycoheterotrophs live their life completely depending on fungi, usually maintain more specialized fungal relationships than autotrophs: it is thought t...Read More
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2021-03-02Living fossil and endangered tree fern Alsophila spinulosa was newly discovered from GuangzhouRecently, during a plant survey near Maofeng Mountain in Guangzhou by researchers from South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences and specialized staff of Longyandong Forest Farm of Guangdong Province, Alsophila spinulosa, a national second-class protective plant, was found in a lush and inaccessible Valley in Maofeng work area....Read More
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2021-02-09Establishment of genetic transformation method in Paphiopedilum Maudiae by Agrobacterium-mediated ovary-injectionAuthor: ZENG Songjun E-mail: zengsongjun@scib.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22010084 Online time: 23 December 2020 Research team, leading by Prof. ZENG Songjun, from South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences recently made a breakthrough in establishing the genetic transformation method for Paphiopedilum. CeFT (Cymbidium ensifolium Flowering Locus T) gene has been successfully transformed into Paphiopedilum Maudiae by ovary injection.Read More
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2021-02-09Fenghwaia, a new monotypic genus of Rhamnaceae from ChinaAuthor: WANG Ruijiang E-mail: wangrj@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.171.57277 Online time: 06 Jan 2021 Field investigation made the taxonomic researchers from South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences find the new species Fenghwaia gardeniicarpa, belonging to the monotypic genus Fenghwaia of the family Rhamnaceae.Read More
The new species Fenghwaia gardeniicarpa is a treelet and grows in the seaside mountains of Jiangmen City, Guangd... -
2021-02-08Three new species of Saussurea were found in ChinaAuthor: CHEN Yousheng E-mail: yschen@scbg.ac.cn Paper link:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/njb.02711; https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.452.3.7; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/njb.02711 Online time: November 2020 Compositae (Asteraceae) is one of the largest families of seed plants, with about 1600 genera, 25000 ~ 35000 species, widely distributed in the world. China has about 250 genera, about 2400 species. Saussurea is the largest genus of Compositae in China. Some species of Saussurea are the origin of Snow Lotus, a kind of famous traditional medicina...Read More