From October 19 to 20, 2019, the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Botanical Garden Working Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) and the 2019 Academic Forum of the Botanical Garden, CAS were successfully held at the Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen).

During the Meeting, 15 members of the Botanical Garden Working Committee reported their works of 2019. REN Hai, director of South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), CAS, and YE Qing, director of Dinghushan Arboretum, made their reports on the botanical garden and arboretum. Directors of 15 botanical gardens discussed the management and use of the funds of the botanical gardens in the next five years, the development of National System of Botanical Garden Standards and the construction of the Alliance of International Science Organizations-Botanical Gardens Union.

At the same time, 20 experts from different botanical gardens reported their works on molecular biology, conservation biology, plant physiology, population ecology, and plant resource development and utilization. After the selection, Dr. ZENG Lanting from SCBG won the first prize with the report "Smell of stress: the formation of tea fragrance".

Figure 1. The group photo of 2019 Academic Forum of the Botanical Garden, CAS

Figure 2. Dr. ZENG Lanting gave the report.

Figure 3. Dr. ZENG Lanting won the first prize.