Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden developed a theoretical model to predict how vessel diameters vary between lianas and trees and across sites (Xishuangbanna tropical seasonal rainforest, Yuanjiang savanna, and Ailaoshan subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest in Yunnan).

Researchers led by Prof. XIAO Jun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and Prof. ZHANG Xiansheng from Shandong Agricultural University investigated the transcriptional regulation and chromatin landscape dynamics during the wheat regeneration process.

A research team led by Prof. LI Pengcheng from the Institute of Oceanology obtained the special sequence of peptides from monkfish (Lophius litulon) protein, and proved that monkfish peptides had anti-fatigue and immunity-enhancing effect.

To gain a better understanding of RNA editing in plant chloroplasts, researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden selected diverse plant species representing three distant evolutionary clades (fern, gymnosperm, and angiosperm), and determined thousands of editing sites based on the amount of RNA-seq data.

During a botanical surveys of the China-Myanmar transboundary region in Yunnan in 2022, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden collected an unknown Begonia species from the Nangunhe National Nature Reserve in Yunnan Province.

HU Junjie's group at the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences systematically analyzed the molecular mechanism by which endoplasmic reticulum (ER) "tubule-forming proteins" induce membrane curvatures, as well as the structural basis for the regulation of cisternal thickness by ER luminal "bridging proteins."

Prof. LI Jiayang's team from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and Prof. WU Dianxing's team from the Zhejiang University have shown that the loss of function of two paralogous starch biosynthetic genes contributes to an increase in resistant starch (RS) content in cooked rice, providing insights into the generation of high-RS varieties in rice and possibly other cereals.

In a recent review, Richard Corlett, an emeritus professor of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, reviewed the current barriers to successful plant conservation and proposed how to achieve zero extinction, of plant species, preventing all future land plant extinctions worldwide.

Dr. Raymond Chan from the Institute of Psychology and his collaborators conducted a study to specifically examine the network structure and interrelationship between childhood trauma, schizotypal traits and other psychopathologies in 1,813 college students.

Researchers led by GAO Xin at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology applied deep learning to epithelial ovarian cancer segmentation and evaluated its feasibility.

A research team led by Prof. HU Guohong from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed the key mechanism of bone metastasis tropism in luminal breast cancer, providing a new biomarker in clinical diagnosis and strategies for bone metastasis treatment.

researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden elucidated the process of protocorm development as well as the structure and properties of embryos and protocorms in Dendrobium chrysotoxum, in order to better understand the mutualism between D. chrysotoxum and its mycobiont.