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2019-12-30Tropical forest plants adapting to low soil P availability via adjusting foliar P fractionAuthor: WANG Faming E-mail: wangfm@scbg.ac.cn> Paper link: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.13252. Online time: 25 November 2018 Tropical forests have some of the largest trees and fastest plant growth on Earth, even though they are often found on infertile soils. Tropical soils generally have low availability of phosphorus (P), one of the nutrients essential for photosynthesis, which maintains plant growth. As a result, tropical forest growth is generally thought to be l...Read More
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2019-12-13Sowing the seeds of innovationFor further reading please refer to: https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-019-00369-0Read More
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2019-12-10A new member was found in Orchidantha (Lowiaceae)Author: ZOU Pu E-mail: zoupu@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/njb.02493 Orchidantha N. E. Brown is the only genus in the monogeneric family Lowiaceae in order Zingiberales (Larsen 1998). This family is mainly distributed in tropical Asia (Borneo, Peninsular Malay and Indo-China Peninsula) and the center is Borneo. Lowiaceae was first reported from China by WU (1964) who described two species, Orchidantha chinensis T...Read More
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2019-12-05Chinese wisdom taking root in Amazon rainforestChinese wisdom taking root in Amazon rainforest Little known is the fact that Chinese scientists have participated in joint research and biodiversity protection in the Amazon since 2008, contributing their wisdom to the world's largest tropical rainforest.Read More
For many ordinary Chinese, the Amazon rainforest represents the most pristine and perilous side of nature, conjuring the images of exo... -
2019-11-14Revealing the process and mechanism of soil organic carbon mineral protection in acid forestsAuthor: YU Mengxiao E-mail: yumx@scib.ac.cn Paper link: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018JG004995 Online time: 29 August 2019 Mineral protection is an important way to prevent soil organic carbon (SOC) from being preserved by microbial decomposition, especially in acidic soils, such as iron and aluminum oxides plays an important role in SOC stabilization. Previous studies have shown the significant differences in the rate of SOC accumulation along forest succession sta...Read More
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2019-10-25Plant growth regulators effectively improve the phytoextraction efficiency in Cd contaminated soilAuthor: ZHUANG Ping E-mail: zhuangp@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10725-019-00548-5 Online time: 16 October 2019 Heavy metal contamination in soil is of great environmental concern due to rapid urbanization and industrialization in China. Phytoremediation technology is a feasible way to remove heavy metals from farmland, especially for cadmium pollution. Application of plant growth regulators (PGRs) is an alternative strategy, which has been considered to ...Read More
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2019-10-24Congratulations! Dr. ZENG Lanting won the first prize in the Academic Forum of the Botanical Garden, CASThe 2019 Annual Meeting of the Botanical Garden Working Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ( CAS ) and the 2019 Academic Forum of the Botanical Garden , CAS were successfully held at the Institute of Botany .Ren Hai , director of South China Botanical Garden ( SCBG ) , CAS , and Ye Qing , director of Dinghushan Arboretum , made their r... From October 19 to 20, 2019, the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Botanical Garden Working Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) and the 2019 Academic Forum of the Botanical Garden, CAS were successfully held at the Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen).Read More
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