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2020-04-26N deposition increase soil carbon sequestration in subtropical forestDeveloping an understanding of the response of soil organic carbon (SOC) to N deposition is critical to quantify and predict the terrestrial carbon uptake under increasing N deposition in the future. However, results from field studies on the response of SOC content and composition to N deposition are highly variable across different ecosystems....Read More
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2020-04-26Native aquatic macrophytes have high removal potentiality of eutrophic wastewaterAuthor: WANG Faguo, XU Lei E-mail: wangfg@scbg.ac.cn, xulei@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/3/1103; https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/23/4663. Online time: 10 February 2020 Eutrophication caused by high concentration of nitrogen and phosphorus in water has become a global environmental problem. At present, exotic and even invasive plants have been used extensively in phytoremediation water systems in China, such as Eichhornia crassipes, Pistia stratiotes and Myriophyllum aquaticum, which can easily be taken into th...Read More
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2020-04-22Climate warming may lead to considerable soil carbon losses in lower altitude forestsAuthor: LIU Juxiu E-mail: ljxiu@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107707 Online time: 14 January 2020 A recent research paper published in Soil biology and Biochemistry entitled "Translocating subtropical forest soils to a warmer region alters microbial communities and increases the decomposition of mineral-associated organic carbon" described a significant loss in soil carbon under warming in a subtropical forest.Read More
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2020-04-22Xinhua news: Nitrogen addition increases plant leaf photosynthetic capacityNitrogen addition increases plant leaf photosynthetic capacity: research BEIJING, April 21 (Xinhua) http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-04/21/c_138995967.htm Researchers have disclosed that the photosynthetic capacity of leaves can be improved by the addition of nitrogen, according to a recent research article published in the journal Global Change Biology.Read More
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition is a crucial factor influencing the structure and function of terrestrial ecosystems. The researchers from th... -
2020-04-20Uncovering the taxonomic relationship of the tribe Cladrastieae (Pea Family) with multidisciplinal evidenceAuthor: DUAN Lei E-mail: duanlei@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/tax.12155 Online time: 2020-1-14 A recent research, solved the taxonomic problems of the tribe Cladrastideae (Fabaceae), was published in Taxon by Dr. DUAN Lei under the guidance of professor CHEN Hong-Feng from South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and professor WEN Jun from Smithsonian Institution.Read More
The Cladrastis clade is an early-diverged linea... -
2020-04-16SCBG researchers reveal global response patterns of plant photosynthesis to nitrogen additionAuthor: LIANG Xingyun E-mail: liangxingyun@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15071 Online time: 08 April 2020 Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition continues to be a major component of global change to impact plant functioning, but a mechanistic understanding of plant photosynthetic response is needed to predict changes in terrestrial carbon (C) gain under conditions of chronically elevated atmospheric N deposition.Read More
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2020-04-15Benzyl nitrile: a toxic volatile produced in tea (Camellia sinensis) during the postharvest processAuthor: LIAO Yinyin E-mail: liaoyy@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.9b06436 Online time: 9 January 2020 Recently, under the guidance of Prof. YANG Ziyin, the research group from South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences published an article entitled "Biochemical pathway of benzyl nitrile derived from L-phenylalanine in tea (Camellia sinensis) and its formation in response to postharvest stresses" in Journal of Agricultural and Fo...Read More
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2020-04-13Reactivation of a site-specifically integrated transgene independent of copy number or DNA methylationThe long term stability of transgene expression is vital for commercial-scale production of seeds with transgenic traits. However, as an adaptive defense against foreign nucleic acids, gene silencing is likely to occur inevitably in transgenic plants and to influence stability of transgene expression. The mechanism involved in transgene silencin...Read More