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2021-01-18SCBG reveals a new mechanism of the plant immunityAuthor: LI Yuge E-mail: liyuge@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaa007 Online time: 23 November 2020 Plants have evolved a set of highly sophisticated mechanisms to deal with environmental stresses and to survive in a cost-efficient manner. For example, upon pathogen attack, plants reallocate their limited resources away from growth towards defense against pathogens, and this trade-off between growth and defense is finely balanced to optimize f...Read More
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2021-01-15Climate Change increases coastal blue carbon sequestrationAuthor: WANG Faming E-mail: wangfm@scib.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa296 Online time: 15 December 2020 Coastal wetlands are important ecosystems, especially in mitigating climate change. Prof. Faming Wang from South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Sanders from Southern Cross University, Australia worked together with several colleagues around the globe to examine coastal blue carbon burial rates. They showed that cl...Read More
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2021-01-13Prolonged time interval between leaf-out and floweringAuthor: MA Qianqian E-mail: maqianqian@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13558 Online time: 20 December 2020 Leaf-out and flowering are two key phenological events of plants, denoting the respective onsets of visible vegetative growth and reproduction during the year. For each species, the schedule of vegetative growth and reproduction is crucial to the maximization of its fitness. Warming-induced advances of leaf-out and flowering have been reported f...Read More
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2020-12-29Calculation of fungal and bacterial inorganic nitrogen immobilization rates in soilAuthor: LI Xiaobo E-mail: lixiaobo@scib.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114450, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.108114. Online time: 15 December 2020 The microbial immobilization of inorganic nitrogen (N) has a vital role in controlling the size of the soil inorganic N pool and is therefore an important mechanism for the retention of N in ecosystems. As the dominant microorganisms in soil, fungi and bacteria are probably the main participants in inorganic N immobilization. However, as a resul...Read More
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2020-12-28SCBG researchers reveal the mortality threshold for trees under drought on a global scaleAuthor: LIANG Xingyun E-mail: liangxingyun@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17117 Online time: 2020-11-29 Many areas on the earth are becoming drier under global warming. Meanwhile, in the past decades, drought-induced forest die-off has been recorded on every forested biome, exerting great effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, a general understanding of forest vulnerability to drought is lacking, because of our limited understan...Read More
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2020-12-25Study: Intraspecific variation of phenological shifts to climate warmingAuthor: SONG Zhuqiu E-mail: songzhuqiu@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13634 Online time: 2020-7-16 The global temperature has averagely increased by about 0.85°C since the late 19th century, and is projected to likely exceed 1.5°C in the end of the 21st century. The timing of seasonal biological activity such as flowering (i.e. phenology) is a sensitive indicator of the ecological effects of global climate warming. With climate warming, spr...Read More
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2020-12-15Research progress on Paphiopedilum armeniacum seed coat lignin biosynthesisAuthor: FANG Lin E-mail: linfang@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12864-020-06931-1 Online time: 29 July 2020 Paphiopedilum is an important genus of the orchid family Orchidaceae and has high horticultural value. The wild populations are under threat of extinction because of overcollection and habitat destruction. Mature seeds of most Paphiopedilum species are difficult to germinate, which severely restricts their germplasm conservation and commercial p...Read More
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2020-12-15Phosphorus addition decreases microbial residual contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a tropical coastal forestAuthor: YUAN Ye E-mail: yuanyee@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15407 Online time: 17 October 2020 Under the guidance of Prof. LIU Zhanfeng, YUAN Ye, a postgraduate student, and LI Yue, a Postdoctoral researcher from South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a 10-year field nitrogen and phosphorus addition in a tropical coastal forest to investigate the effects of nutrient fertilization, soil aggregate fractions an...Read More