Prof. WANG Liangsheng's group from the Institute of Botany compared the antioxidant activity of extracts from different parts of seven Antique Lotus plants. They identified the parts with the greatest economic development potential and then analyzed their polyphenolic components by UPLC-TQ-MS.

Led by Prof. ZHU Tingshao from the Institute of Psychology, a research team demonstrated how the machine learning model senses people's psychological well-being and investigated the predictive power of social media corresponding to ground truth well-being data in a psychological way.

During taxonomic studies on Cynanchum, researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden found that the distinctions between Cynanchum thesioides and C. gobicum Grubov are questionable.

Prof. SONG Xianjun's group from the Institute of Botany has uncovered a gene network underlying the regulation of seed size. They found that a genetically defined cascade—OsTIR1–OsIAA10–OsARF4—plays an important role in controlling rice grain size, and Thousand-grain weight on chromosome 3 phosphorylation of OsIAA10 regulates the trait by altering the corresponding auxin signaling.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden used molecular and genetic approaches to reveal the biological functions of PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE1 (PHR1) in the jasmonate signaling pathway and to clarify how inorganic phosphate deficiency cooperates with endogenous jasmonate signaling to mediate physiological processes in plants.

A team led by Prof. LEI Jiuhou from University of Science and Technology of China and the collaborators revealed the notable evidence of the dramatic thermospheric disturbances and global upper thermospheric perturbations of Tonga eruption, and confirmed that the impact of volcanic eruption has outreached the ionosphere and creeps into the thermospheric density up to 500 km satellite orbiting altitudes.

To gain a better understanding of the phylogenetic relationships and plastome evolutionary pattern of Apocynaceae, researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden obtained a total of 101 complete plastomes, representing 26 out of 27 tribes of Apocynaceae, to perform comparative plastome analyses.

Recently, a research group led by Prof. HE Shunping from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the key genetic innovation and regulatory mechanisms associated with freeze tolerance of Amur sleeper (Perccottus glenii), the only known freeze-tolerant fish species.

Drs. WANG Ya and Raymond Chan from the Institute of Psychology have conducted a study to investigate the neural correlates of Mental Time Travel (MTT) in 38 participants with high level of schizotypy and 35 low level of schizotypy. All of them completed a task-based MTT paradigm while they were undertaking brain scan.

Led by Dr. LI Su from the Institute of Psychology, researchers analyzed the frequency of pauses, the categories of pauses and the pausing position when Chinese preschoolers told stories from a picture book without words.

A research team led by ZHAO Yuliang and WANG Hao from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with XU Wanhai from the Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, developed a bispecific glycopeptide (bsGP) regulating the spatial interactions of multiple cell types in tumor microenvironment through "In vivo self-assembly" strategy for inhibiting tumor recurrence.

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their collaborators present the first systematic analysis of the diversity and distribution patterns of orchids along elevation gradients on Mt. Victoria, Myanmar.