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2019-10-24Phosphorus reduces the passivation effect of wollastonite on cadmium in riceAuthor: ZHUANG Ping E-mail: zhuangp@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719325318 Online time: 15 October 2019 Heavy metal pollution of farmland in China poses a serious threat to food security and public health, which has resulted in widespread public concern. Therefore, it is an urgent task to control heavy metal pollution of farmland to reduce the risk of excessive heavy metal in crops. Among all kinds of remediation technologies of heavy metal contam...Read More
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2019-10-24Laos delegation visited South China Botanical GardenFrom October 21 to 22, Laos Delegation of the "2019 Seminar on Environmental Protection and Assessment" organized by Hainan University visited SCBG for academic exchange and cooperation. From October 21 to 22, Laos delegation of the "2019 Seminar on Environmental Protection and Assessment" organized by Hainan University visited South China Botanical Garden (SCBG) for academic exchange and cooperation. Deputy director of Project Management & Foreign Affairs Department, Ms. YU Yan delivered the introduction presentation with SCBG ...Read More
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2019-09-19A method for transgene replacement in plantaAuthor: SU Yunlin E-mail: suyunlin@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/pbi.13172 While GM crops of past years contain one to few traits, the continuous discovery of new trait genes would mean that over time, crops could end up with a large number of transgene insertions. If they were dispersed throughout the genome, extensive breeding would be needed to reassemble all of them into a single breeding line. Stacking new DNA to ...Read More
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2019-09-17The "middle way" of plant defense response: a new mechanism of plants fine-tuning growth-defense balanceAuthor: LI Yuge E-mail: liyuge@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S167420521930259XRead More
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2019-08-29Why do bananas brown in the fridge? - probably because of miRNA528 !Author: ZHU Hong E-mail: zhuhong@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16130 Do you have to put fruit in the fridge to keep it longer? Not for bananas! Because bananas turn brown in the fridge. Polyphenol oxidase (PPO) is widely considered as one of the important factors for the tissue browning of fruits and vegetables. However, the molecular mechanism of banana peel browning is still poorly understood.Read More
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2019-07-25Changes in plant functional traits and their relationships with environmental factors along an urban-rural gradientAuthor: SONG Guangman E-mail: songguangman@scib.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105558 Rapid urbanization in southern China has had significant impacts on the evergreen broad-leaved forests and caused a series of environmental issues. How plants, in particular plant functional traits, respond to urbanization is hence of importance for their acclimation to changing environments.Read More
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2019-07-22Engineering low-cadmium rice through expression of OXS3-family member genesAuthor: WANG Changhu E-mail: cwang@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1871678417305198 Exposure to cadmium (Cd), a toxic heavy metal classified as a group 1 carcinogen can lead to cancer, osteoporosis and renal disorder.Read More
Contamination of soil with Cd results in human dietary intake from plant-derived food, with rice as the major source of dietary Cd for nearly half of the world’s population that relies on it as a staple.
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2019-07-19Urbanization intensifies phosphorus (P) limitation in subtropical forest ecosystemsAuthor: HUANG Juan E-mail: lotus-hj@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719323721?via%3Dihub Urbanization, the migration of populations from rural to urban areas, has been causing great stress on natural environments, leading to air pollution and nitrogen (N) deposition, negatively affecting forest health. Although there is evidence that urbanization has changed forest N cycling, little is known about whether urbanization also changes t...Read More