Paleopolyploidy refers to ancient genome duplications which occurred at least several million years ago. The genome doubling event could either be an autopolyploidy or an allopolyploidy. Due to functional redundancy, genes are rapidly silenced and/or lost from the duplicated genomes. Most paleopo...

On Augest 20, Prof. LI Jiayang, the Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), made an inpection on South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), accompanied by Mr. KONG Fanwen, (director of Bureau of Capital Construction, CAS), Dr. SU Ronghui (deputy director of Bureau of Life Sciences and Biot...

Mr. Larry Nau, the Executive Director of the International Waterlily & Water Gardening Society (IWGS), visited the South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences from July 27th to 28th. He was warmly received by Prof. HUANG Hongwen, director of SCBG, Prof. XIA Nianhe, vice direc...

Herkogamy is a common strategy employed by hermaphroditic angiosperms to reduce self interference within flowers. Stigma-height dimorphism is a less well-known reciprocal herkogamy. In species with stigma-height dimorphism, individuals within a population have two floral-morphs and flowers of dif...

Figs (Ficus species, Moraceae) are defined by a unique enclosed inflorescence, the syconium, which are also the arena for interactions with fig wasps. Figs and their pollinating wasps constitute one of the classic examples of pollination mutualism and appear to present one of the best cases of co...