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2011-02-23SCBG and Maruzen Pharm Sign Contract for Licorice ResearchSouth China Botanical Garden(SCBG),Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)and Maruzen Pharmaceutical Co. IMOTO Katsue,president of Maruzen Pharm signed the contract as the respective representatives According to the contract,the first phase of the project lasts for three years. The aims of the project are the breeding of high quality licorice varieties... South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Maruzen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Japan (Maruzen Pharm) signed a cooperation contract for licorice research in Guangzhou on February 18, 2011. Prof. HUANG Hongwen, director of SCBG and Mr. IMOTO Katsue, president of Maruzen Pharm signed the contract as the respective repre...Read More -
2011-02-22A New Hybrid Rice Combination Zhiyou 523 Passed the Audit of Crop Breeding Evaluation Committee of Guangdong ProvinceFrom Bulletin No. 1 of Department of Agriculture of Guangdong Province in 2011 issued recently,“ZhiYou 523”。 ZHANG Mingyong and his colleagues from South China Botanical Garden(SCBG)passed the audit of the thirty-fifth crop breed evaluation of Guangdong Province on December 30,2010.“Zhiyou 523”was derived the combination of CMS(cytoplasmic ... From Bulletin No. 1 of Department of Agriculture of Guangdong Province in 2011 issued recently, "ZhiYou 523", a new hybrid rice combination, bred by Prof. ZHANG Mingyong and his colleagues from South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) passed the audit of the thirty-fifth crop breed evaluation of Guangdong Province on December 30, 2010.Read More
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2011-02-14Lu Yongxiang Inspects South China Botanical GardenOn Februnay11, Prof. LU Yongxiang, the vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the president of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), made a special inspection of South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), accompanied by Prof. ZHANG Zhibing, director of Bureau of Life Science and Biotechnology CAS, Prof. FAN Weimin, ...Read More
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2011-01-25Emergy and Eco-exergy Based Self-organization of four Artificial Forests in Subtropical ChinaEcosystems are self-organization systems,with opening and non-linear development characteristics. There is a long history of theory study on self-organization of ecosystems with great advances gotten from function and structure aspects separately,but case study is still lacking. The results showed that the initial conditions could have a permane... Ecosystems are self-organization systems, with opening and non-linear development characteristics. There is a long history of theory study on self-organization of ecosystems with great advances gotten from function and structure aspects separately, but case study is still lacking. The self-organization efficiency rules need to be discovered, bes...Read More -
2011-01-17How Nitrogen Deposition Affects Tropical Forest Plant DiversityIn 2010,Dr. ,Global Change Biology,2010,16:2688–2700).On the base of this finding,their further study in Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve for six years showed that responses of plant diversity in reforested forests varied with different land-use history. It also has great significance for valuing changes of forest biodiversity under the background ... In 2010, Dr. LU Xiankai, Prof. MO Jiangming and his colleagues from SCBG found that elevated N deposition may decrease plant diversity of “N-rich” forests (see Lu et al., Global Change Biology, 2010, 16: 2688–2700). On the base of this finding, their further study in Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve for six years showed that responses of plant di...Read More -
2010-12-24Gibberellins (GAs) modulate jasmonate (JA) signalingGibberellins(GAs)modulate jasmonate(JA)signaling,which is essential for stress response and development of plants. A great progress achieved on this field recently. Because DELLAs serve as central regulators that mediate the crosstalk of various phytohormones,our mode lalso suggests a candidate mechanism by which JA signaling may be fine-tuned b... Gibberellins (GAs) modulate jasmonate (JA) signaling, which is essential for stress response and development of plants. However, the molecular details of such phytohormone interaction remain largely unknown.Read More
Dr. XIA Kuafei from Sustainable Use of Plant and Gene Resource Field in South China Botanical Garden, CAS and postdoctor HOU Xingliang ... -
2010-12-20Tissue Culture in the Rare and Endangered Plant of Metabriggsia ovalifolia Achieves SuccessSince South China Botanical Garden(SCBG)succeed in propagation and reintroduction of the first-grade rare and endangered plant of Primulina tabacum via biotechnology,the scientific researchers of SCIB recently carried out systematic studies on another first grade rare and endangered species Metabriggsia ovalifolia of the same family(Gesneriaceae... Since South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) succeed in propagation and reintroduction of the first-grade rare and endangered plant of Primulina tabacum via biotechnology, the scientific researchers of SCIB recently carried out systematic studies on another first grade rare and endangered species Metabriggsia ovalifolia of the same family (Gesneria...Read More -
2010-12-10South China Institute of Botany Gets Grant of Key Program from Natural Science Foundation of China on Forest TranspirationHow forests regulate transpiration in order to adapt to the new distribution pattern of water and to maintain effective water use is a pressing issue needing to be addressed. The new project hypothesizes that hydraulic conductance and canopy stomatal conductance of trees jointly control the response of forest water use to evaporative demand in c... With previous projects funded by Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Chinese Academy Science Knowledge Innovative Program and Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, the Research Group of Ecosystem Physiology, headed by Prof. ZHAO Ping, has conducted research on plantation water use and H2O/CO2 exchange fluxes between forest ca...Read More