Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden evaluated the available information on the ethnobotanical, phytochemical, and pharmacological uses, possible mechanisms of action, and toxicity of Actinidia plants, to understand their connotations and provide a scientific basis and gaps for further research.

During a field research in the Tibetan Plateau, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden collected fossil leaves of Bauhinia from the upper Paleocene Liuqu Formation, Lazi County, southern Tibet. After detailed morphological comparison with living and previously reported fossil species, the researchers classified the fossil leaves as a new species.

Recently, researchers from Beijing Institute of Genomics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed the Biomarker Knowledgebase for Animals (BioKA), which not only provides rich information on human markers, but also addresses the gap in biomarker resources for non-human animal disease understanding and breeding research.

Recently, Prof. CHEN Chang from Institute of Biophysics and the collaborators, revealed the new function of naringenin (NAR) to enhance muscle endurance and improve muscle atrophy by activating Sp1-ERRγ transcriptional axis.

researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and University of Plymouth used 3-T method to study thermal regulation strategies of leaves along a temperature and precipitation gradient.

Researchers from China and the UK have discovered a protein complex that supports nutrient homeostasis and lignin polymerization in plants, thus suggesting a way to improve water and nutrient utilization in crops through molecular design.

Researchers led by Prof. ZHANG Jinsong from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology have identified the regulatory factor GmPLATZ from seed transcriptomes and further found that it controls seed weight and size through the GmPLATZ-GmGA20OX/cyclins module in soybean.

Scientists from the Institute of Botany reported a structural basis for revealing the energy transfer and dissipation mechanisms and the structural diversity of FCP antennas in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana.

A research team led by Dr. CAO Xiaofeng at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology improved the biomass-related traits in sheepgrass using its own custom genome editing system while increasing understanding of sheepgrass genomics.

Researchers from Wuhan Botanical Garden focused on the roles of pentatricopeptide repeat proteins in the fruit development and pathogen stress of kiwifruit, and provided their expression patterns at different fruit development under different pathogen stress.

A team of researchers led by Prof. ZHENG Mingyue from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a pairwise binding comparison network (PBCNet).

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden explored how the F-box protein MINI ORGAN1 (MIO1) regulates organ size. They performed a yeast library screening and isolated a potential interactor, MtKIX8, by using MIO1 as the bait.