During 25th to 26th of October, a deputation from Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, CAS (SIPPE) was invited by South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) to conduct strategic cooperation and academic communication in Guangzhou. The deputation was com...

A new rice cytoplasmic male sterile line "Yuan A" bred by South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences, passed the technical appraisement under the direction of the Seed Administration of Guangdong Province on October 24, 2010. The rice experts from Guangdong Science and Techn...

The role of different tree species of plantations on soil nutrient cycling is of great importance for restoration of degraded lands. In southern China, both N-fixing and non-N-fixing tree species were widely used in forest restoration.
　　To evaluate the potential of N-fixing and non-N-fixing tr...

Dr. Donald Raymond Strong, the editor-in-chief of the journal Ecology and the professor of Evolution and Ecology (University of California Davis) visited CAS South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) with his wife on 21st October 2010, at the invitation of Dr. Shenglei Fu, the deputy director of SCBG.
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Nitrogen cycling is a critical component in plantations, yet the spatial and temporal variations of N transformations in different stages of afforestation are poorly known so far.
　　Dr. WANG Faming, led by Prof. LI Zhian and Prof. Hanping Xia, from the Key Lab of Vegetation Restoration and Mana...