For taxonomists, there is nothing more awe-inspiring than finding a fantastic new species, something that probably no one has ever seen before! And it is more fun when such a new species is found from the backyard of your workplace. Recently, a team led by Dr. LUO Shixiao at South China Botanical...

The Report on National Mental Health Development in China (2017–2018) revealed that 11%–15% of the Chinese population have mild to moderate mental health conditions and 2%–3% have moderate to serious mental health conditions. A growing body of empirical evidence in developed countries has reve...

Plant seedlings generally undergo a series of developmental changes to seek light from seed germination to seedling emergence. Once exposed in the light, plants undergo a series of photomorphogenic responses, which require to quickly remove the repressors accumulated in the dark and activate the ...

Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are two most commonly limiting nutrients for the growth and reproduction of photosynthetic biota. Increased supplies of N, P, or both are expected to exert substantial impacts on growth and metabolism of plants and soil microbes, therefore terrestrial carbon (C)-cy...

Soil is a major terrestrial C pool. Nitrogen (N)-induced soil C sequestration has been well documented, however, the underlying mechanisms of how N regulates soil C budgets remain uncertain, which has generated extensive debate about the above and belowground C allocation, in particular under N e...