The Medicinal Plant Resources Group from the Wuhan Botanical Garden selected 33 Bletilla populations (including 28 B. striata populations and five B. ochracea populations), which covered their major distribution areas in China, to systematically evaluate the main phenotypic traits, pseudobulb yields and main active ingredients among different species and populations.

Using a multi-species experimental approach, researchers from the Institute of Botany have recently found that trade-off between current reproduction and future performance was associated with flowering strategy and clonality.

In a recent study, using Bioclimatic Analysis (BA) and Jointed Probability Density Functions, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) quantitatively reconstructed the paleoclimatic parameters based on 48 floras for the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

To better understand the evolutionary features and mechanisms of plant mitochondrial genomes, researchers from the Kunming Institute of Botany have assembled 13 complete mitochondrial genomes from Fragaria wild species and studied the sequence variation characteristics (substitution rate, indels, inversions) of their coding and non-coding regions.

Researchers led by Prof. ZHANG Chengjun from the Kunming Institute of Botany designed and created new pipelines to dynamically detect fusion genes across phylogeny and conducted genome-wide interrogations of four Oryza genomes. They detected 310 fusion genes across four young diploid genome Oryza species.

In a recent study, Prof. YANG Wenqiang's research team from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has reported the critical role of the largest protein Orf2971 encoded by the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plastid genome in protein translocation and quality control.

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden, together with collaborators from Wuhan University, have addressed this research gap by investigating the adsorption behavior of copper ions on different-sized polyethylene and their combined effects on four submerged macrophytes species. Adsorption tests, batch experiments on combined effect of microplastics and copper ions were conducted.

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology published an editorial article to review the exploration of the effect of microgravity on embryonic development, cell growth and differentiation.

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to evaluate the spatial pattern of nitrogen and phosphorus cycling functional genes and find out their potential influence on the aboveground plant community in a hyper-diverse tropical forest ecosystem in Xishuangbanna.

A research group led by Prof. SUN Yuhua from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences provides the evidence that POGZ controls the stemness of ESCs and ESC neural induction by association with esBAF.

Researchers from CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technolog have revealed that missense mutations in PiT2-loop7 cause inorganic phosphate dyshomeostasis by affecting the phosphorylation-regulated cell-surface localization of PiT2, which finally leads to primary familial brain calcification.

The research team undertaking the Black Soil & Granary scientific and technological project in Shenyang Demonstration Zone has developed a compound fertilizer for corn planting in the semi-arid, black soil areas in western Liaoning Province. The enhanced efficiency fertilizer can fertilize soil and increase crop yield, and is beneficial to control land degradation and soil pollution in arid areas of western Liaoning.