Recently, tea research group of the South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (PI: Prof. Ziyin Yang) published a review entitled “Understanding the biosyntheses and stress response mechanisms of aroma compounds in tea (Camellia sinensis) to safely and effectively improve tea arom...

Rhodomyrtus tomentosa (Aiton) Hassk., also knownd as Rose myrtle, is distributed in the hilly areas of Taiwan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Lingnan region. R. tomentosa is a medicinal and ornamental plant, and its sweet fruit is edible.
　　Liyun Zhao, Ph.D. student of the Natural Products Che...

Guettarda speciosa is a dominant woody plant on Xisha Islands, widely distributing on tropical and subtropical oceanic islands. As a typical island plant, it is a favorable species to study evolutional ecology questions relating to plants long distance dispersal. According our research data on Xi...

Following allopolyploid formation, extensive genome evolution occurs, with the eventual loss of many homeologous gene copies. Although this process of diploidization has occurred many times independently, the evolutionary forces determining the probability and rate of gene loss remain poorly unde...

Lowland tropical forests with chronic nitrogen (N) deposition and/or abundant N-fixing organisms are commonly rich in N relative to other nutrients. The tropical N richness introduces a paradoxical relationship in which many tropical forests sustain high rates of asymbiotic N fixation despite the...