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2024-04-02Researchers' " photoperiod " Discovery regulate soybean seed weightGuangzhou researchers have teamed up with china scientists to successfully identify the Dt1 as a new negative regulator to control soybean seed weight that provide new insights into how soybean seed development responds to photoperiod at different latitudes .We unveiled a new mechanism of how seed weight is controlled by photoperiod in crops , o... Guangzhou researchers have teamed up with china scientists to successfully identify the Dt1 as a new negative regulator to control soybean seed weight that provide new insights into how soybean seed development responds to photoperiod at different latitudes.Soybean is a photoperiod-sensitive short-day crop whose reproductive period and yield are...Read More -
2024-04-01Spatial variation and cross-scale associations of soil microbial necromass carbon in tropical mountain rainforestsAutocorrelation , with significant high-high and low-low clustering patterns , and soil , topographic , and plant properties were important driving factors . Microbial necromass are an important source of soil organic carbon and play a crucial role in regulating the structure and stability of soil organic carbon pools. Tropical forests store over 60% of global forest carbon in living biomass, necromass, and soil carbon, approximately accounting for 25% of terrestrial biosphere carbon stocks and with ...Read More -
2024-03-25Botanist CHEN Huanyong, the founder of South China Botanical GardenBook named Botanist CHEN Huanyong : story of SCBG ’ s founder is published by South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ( SCBG , CAS ) .Taxa and new combinations , including the famous “ living fossil ” plant — Cathaya argyrophylla Chun et Kuang .Huanyong , who continuously explored and develop in the field of plant tax... A newly released book named Botanist CHEN Huanyong: story of SCBG’s founder is published by South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (SCBG,CAS).Read More
Prof. CHEN Huanyong (Woon-Young Chun, 陈焕镛, 1890–1971), a leading botanist and taxonomist, who started a new era for the modern plant science in China and made a great con... -
2024-03-22The South China Botanical Garden published a new genus of Asteraceae — Qineryangia Y. S. Chen & L. S. Xu.Plants possess significant edible , medicinal , and ornamental value , such as Lactuca , Cichorium , and Taraxacum . The Cichorieae plants exhibit diverse.Crepidinae . However , due to the complexity of morphological characteristics , lack of molecular data , and inadequacy of genetic information obtained through.Recognition of his contributions... The tribe Cichorieae of the family Asteraceae comprises approximately 95 genera and 2500 species, distributed widely in the Northern Hemisphere. In China, there are about 35 genera and 388 species. Many of these plants possess significant edible, medicinal, and ornamental value, such as Lactuca, Cichorium, and Taraxacum. The Cichorieae plants ex...Read More -
2024-03-15Launch of a new journal, Biological Diversity: Addressing Global Biodiversity ChallengesAs humanity grapples with the complex challenge of balancing ecological integrity with human development , the urgent need for sustainable solutions to conserve biodiversity has never been clearer .Considering this imperative , the South China Botanical Garden , Chinese Academy of Sciences , in collaboration with John Wiley , a renowned academic... As humanity grapples with the complex challenge of balancing ecological integrity with human development, the urgent need for sustainable solutions to conserve biodiversity has never been clearer. Considering this imperative, the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with John Wiley, a renowned academic publ...Read More -
2024-03-15Long-term nitrogen and phosphorus addition have stronger negative effects on microbial residual carbon in subsoils than topsoils in subtropical forestsForests take up approximately 45% of the organic carbon ( C ) in terrestrial ecosystems , with over 67% of the C retained in soil .Although plant C inputs and mineral protection play crucial roles in the variation of MRC in the surface soil layer , both microbial characteristics and mineral protection are important factors influencing MRC in the... Forests take up approximately 45% of the organic carbon (C) in terrestrial ecosystems, with over 67% of the C retained in soil. Thus, a small change in forest soil C pool may have a significant impact on atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Highly weathered lowland (sub)tropical forests are widely recognized as nitrogen (N)-rich and phosphorus (P)-po...Read More -
2024-03-07Different indicative roles of stable nitrogen isotope in soil N dynamics of tropical leguminous and non-leguminous forests following nutrient additionNitrogen ( N ) cycling is a critical biogeochemical process in terrestrial ecosystems that is difficult to directly expound because of its complexity with multiple transformation processes and feedback .This study , entitled ‘ Different indicative roles of ？ stable nitrogen isotope in ？ soil N dynamics of ？ tropical leguminous and ？ non-leg... Nitrogen (N) cycling is a critical biogeochemical process in terrestrial ecosystems that is difficult to directly expound because of its complexity with multiple transformation processes and feedback. Nitrogen isotopes of plants and soil integrate information on ecosystem N-cycling, which has been widely applied in the study of terrestrial ecosy...Read More -
2024-02-08Disentangling climate and evolution in explaining variation in hydraulic traits of Fabaceae speciesGenera and over 19500 species .Many species in Fabaceae are cosmopolitan , showing particular diversity and abundance in seasonal dry tropical forests and.Phylogenetic trees of Fabaceae species and sampling status in this study . The contrasting hydraulic traits observed among different plant life forms are shaped by entangled environmental and evolutionary processes. However, we lack understanding of the relative importance of life form, climate and phylogeny in explaining the variance of hydraulic traits. As the third largest family of angiosperms, Fabaceae has ~770 ge...Read More