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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
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2021-02-01Research Progress on Polysaccharide Biosynthesis and Regulation in Orchid Plant Dendrobium officinaleAuthor: YU Zhenming E-mail: zhenming311@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-020-02811-8 Online time: 06 January 2021 Dendrobium officinale, as a time-honored tonic food and precious Chinese herbal medicine, is an epiphytic orchid plant, which grows on the trunks, cliffs or rocks, and usually faces up to diverse environmental stresses (e.g. cold and heat stress, and water deficit). Plant DNA methylation, a conserved and important epigenetic modification, depend...Read More
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2021-01-29Potential Mechanisms of Phosphorus Acquisition of Subtropical ForestsAuthor: WEN Dazhi E-mail: dzwen@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.108099 Online time: 27 November 2020 Researchers from South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed a potential mechanism of phosphorus acquisition by plants during succession of subtropical forests, according to a research article recently published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry.Read More
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2021-01-27Lihengjia, a new genus of Asteraceae was publishedAuthor: CHRN Yousheng E-mail: yschen@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tax.12428 Online time: 11 January 2021 Dubyaea is a genus of about 15 species belonging to Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae subtribe Crepidinae. All species of Dubyaea are distributed in the Pan Himalayan region and its adjacent areas. Stebbins once believed that the genus Dubyaea had ancestral groups of some widely distributed genera of tribe Cichorieae. Based on molecular phylogenetic s...Read More
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2021-01-26Study reveals how radial growth responses of two dominant conifers to climate in Central AsiaAuthor: KANG Jian E-mail: kangj@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108297 Online time: 2021-1-1 As a pivotal component of terrestrial biomes, forest ecosystems play a vital role in climate regulation, the hydrologic cycle and carbon sequestration. The boreal forest of the Holarctic is one of the earth’s largest biomes and is also one of the ecosystems that is most sensitive to climate change. This region is also the source of rivers in ma...Read More
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2021-01-25Research progress on accumulation and regulation of flavonol in Dendrobium plantAuthor: YU Zhenming E-mail: zhenming311@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00709-020-01599-6 Online time: 06 January 2021 Dendrobium officinale Kimura et Migo, which is a perennial herbaceous herb native to south and southeast Asia, belongs to the Orchidaceae. D. officinale stems are commonly used as a traditional Chinese herbal medicine to restore physical vitality, as it contains many beneficial compounds such as flavonoids, polysaccharides, and alkaloids.Read More
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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