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2024-07-07Response of water and nutrient utilization strategy by dominant tree species to altered precipitation patterns in a tropical forestUnder such dual pressures .Secondary tropical forest under altered seasonal precipitation patterns " , respectively .Ecology , E-mail : hexiaofang @ scbg . ac . cn. Tropical forest face significant challenges due to global climate change, particularly shifting precipitation patterns that including delayed rainy seasons and extreme rainfall events. These changes will impact soil water and nutrient cycling and alter plant strategies for water and nutrient absorption and utilization. The highly weathered soils...Read More
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2024-06-05The first chromosome-level reference genomes of the ornamental banana and pink bananaFor banana cultivars , their wild relatives , and ornamental species of Musa , which hampered the crop and ornamental plant improvement . Banana (Musa spp.) comprises approximately 70 herbaceous species, which are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of Asia and Oceania. This genus is renowned for being one of the most important food crops globally and popular ornamental plants in the markets. Although the rapid development of third-generation sequencing technologies ha...Read More
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2024-05-25Phylogeny and re-circumscription of Cheniella (Leguminosae: Cercidoideae)For her contributions to the taxonomy of Leguminosae .Characteristics , clearly distinguishing it from other species within Bauhinia s . l . , the circumscription , phylogenetic relationships of this genus , and the evolution pattern of key traits remain ambiguous or contested .Species and 3 subspecies , including three new species and two new c... Leguminosae is the third largest family of angiosperms after Asteraceae and Orchidaceae in terms of the number of species, and many of them have important economic, ecological and social values. Subfamily Cercidoideae is an early-diverging lineage of Leguminosae, contains about 14 genera and 335 species distributed pantropically and in some subt...Read More
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2024-05-17Aspidistra yangchunensis (Asparagaceae), a new species from Guangdong, ChinaThe genus ? Aspidistra ? Ker-Gawler ? belongs to the family Asparagaceae , which is native to tropical and subtropical Asia , mainly distributed in south China and the adjacent areas of Vietnam , with a few species occurring in Laos , Thailand .Living collection team of South China Botanical Garden collected a species of ? Aspidistra ? with... The genus Aspidistra Ker-Gawler belongs to the family Asparagaceae, which is native to tropical and subtropical Asia, mainly distributed in south China and the adjacent areas of Vietnam, with a few species occurring in Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan and NE India. The morphological characteristics of the flowers of this genus are extremely diver...Read More
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2024-05-13The latitudinal patterns and driving factors of plant lignin and microbial necromass accumulation in eastern forests of ChinaPlant - and microbial-derived compounds are the two primary sources of soil organic carbon .The results suggest that the disproportionate impacts of microbial traits ( especially microbial richness : biomass ratios ) on the accumulation of plant lignin and microbial necromass in forest soils of eastern China . These findings have important impli... Plant- and microbial-derived compounds are the two primary sources of soil organic carbon. However, how biotic and abiotic factors regulate the contributions of plant and microbial residue carbon to soil organic carbon at a regional scale remains unclear.Read More
This study focuses on five latitudinal forests in eastern China, using lignin phenols a... -
2024-05-10Xiaoliang Station reveals the underlying mechanisms of bioturbation on methane emissions in mangrove soilsBioturbation is one of the most significant environmental characteristics of mangrove ecosystems and plays an important role in the mangrove carbon cycle .This study analyzes methane emissions , soil physicochemical properties , and the composition of methane-cycling microbial communities before and after fiddler crab bioturbation in two distinc... Bioturbation is one of the most significant environmental characteristics of mangrove ecosystems and plays an important role in the mangrove carbon cycle. Macro benthos in the soil act like bioturbators; their presence and activity can significantly impact the microbial-driven carbon cycling processes by altering the physicochemical properties o...Read More
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2024-05-10Angiopteris nodosipetiolata (Marattiaceae), a new fern species from Yunnan, ChinaProtection in China .During the survey , they discovered a suspected new species within the genus , and immediately collected specimens for further morphological observations .Similar species and exhibits significant genetic distance between species ( Fig .Tel : 15011794942 . The genus Angiopteris Hoffmann, which belongs to the Eusporangiate ferns within the Marattiales Link and Marattiaceae Kaulf., is a crucial clade in the origin and evolution of ferns, offering significant ornamental, medicinal, edible, and scientific research value. Currently, Angiopteris is recognised to contain about 53 species in the world, wi...Read More
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2024-05-08Unraveling the Antimicrobial Potential: Pigeon Pea Stilbene Longistylin A against Nocardia InfectionsSimilarities to tuberculosis .Tel : 020-372082553 . A groundbreaking study by researchers from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has shed light on the antimicrobial mechanisms of Longistylin A (LGA), a natural stilbene compound found in pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) leaves. This research, led by Professor Sheng-xiang Qiu, has been published in the Journ...Read More