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2024-04-02Scientists from South China Botanical Garden reveal impact of temperature variability on wood phenology of Northern Hemisphere conifersIncreasing evidences show decoupling between growth timing and annual woody growth , the subtle responses of wood formation ( e . g . .Given the immediate threats posed by worldwide increases in climate variability , there is an urgent need to understand how temperature variability affects the timing of forest wood phenology and the underlying m...Read More
Increasing evidences show decoupling between growth timing and annual woody growth, the subtle responses of wood formation (e.g., xylem phenology) to multiple facets of global warming should be quantified to improve our understanding of forest growth dynamics; however, this task remains challenging. One of the largest uncertainties in the r... -
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...Read More
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 yiel... -
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 .Read More
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 ... -
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...Read More
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).
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 grea... -
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...Read More
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 plan... -
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
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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
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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...Read More
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 ...