On Nov. 30, 2010, the project "Guangdong provincial tropical and subtropical plant germplasm resource bank (2006-2008)", presided by Prof. REN Hai of South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), was checked and accepted by the Science & Technology Department of Guangdong Province. The expert group, whose...

China is the largest rice producing and consuming country in the world, but rice production has given way to the production of vegetables during the past twenty years. The government has been trying to stop this land-use conversion and increase the area in rice-vegetable rotation. ''What is the r...

 Pearl River is one of the produce and export area for aquacultural products, and the rapid development of aquaculture is also one of the main results for the past shrinkage of mangrove ecosystem and the difficult restoration of it. Thus, the ecological economic benefit and impact of these aquacu...

At the invitation of CAS South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), Dr. Carl Lewis, the director of Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden in Miami, America and his assistant Dr. LIU Hong visited SCBG on Oct. 31, 2010. Prof. FU Shenglei, deputy director of SCBG and Prof. YAN Junhua, assistant director war...

Ochna integerrima belongs to Ochnaceae. It is a high ornamental and medicinal plant and all parts of the plant can be used as Chinese medicine. The bark can be used for treatment of digestive diseases; the roots are an insect repellent herb and the leaves and branches contain a variety of flavono...