A team of researchers led by YU Xuekui and LUO Cheng from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, resolved the structures of E6AP and E6-bound E6AP using cryo-electron microscopy, and revealed the functional mechanism of E6AP through structural comparison between the E6AP alone and the E6AP/E6 complex, complemented by molecular dynamics simulations and biochemical analysis.

A research team led by Dr. WANG Guodong from Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology used gene co-expression analysis to identify GmMATE100 as a candidate gene for soyasaponin transport among 117 members of the Multidrug and Toxic Compound Extrusion (MATE) transporter family in the soybean genome.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden investigated the effect of inulin-type Aspidopterys obcordata fructo oligosaccharide from Aspidopterys obcordata on urinary calcium oxalate crystals to explore its efficacy and mechanism in treating kidney stones in rats.

Prof. ZHANG Xiaoming at the Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the collaborators from Fudan University and Zhejiang University, unveiled two responding patterns of tumor-infiltrating B cells with therapeutic implications.

Dr. LIU Qing's team from the South China Botanical Garden has assembled the genome sequence of wild oat species and conducted a comparative genomics research to deepen our understanding of the origin of the oat genome.

During a plant resource survey in Gongshan County, Yunnan Province in 2022, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and Wuhan Botanical Garden discovered a special vine plant of the genus Vincetoxicum. After consulting relevant literature and comprehensive morphological character analysis, they finally confirmed that the species is new to botanical science.

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden conducted a five-year field experiment in an alpine meadow in the Hengduan Mountains. They documented interactions among 13 bumblebee species and nearly 120 plant species, recording 10,598 connections.

Based on a long-term simulated acid addition experiment in Dinghushan, Guangdong Province, researchers from the South China Botanical Garden conducted a study on the mechanism of soil organic carbon accumulation and stabilization in monsoon evergreen broadleaf forests under acid addition treatment. They found that in terms of carbon composition, acid addition significantly increased the accumulation of particulate organic carbon and mineral-associated organic carbon.

Researchers led by Prof. DING Jingjin from the Institute of Biophysics and Prof. SHAO Feng from the National Institute of Biological Sciences have revealed novel mechanisms for cleavage-independent activation of two types of GSDM proteins from lower eukaryotes.

A vast DNA tree of life brings open access DNA sequences of more than 9,500 flowering plants was recently achieved, this invaluable resource lets us answer key questions about modern plant life and look back in time to its origins.

During a field investigations in southern Yunnan, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden found a unique winged fruit fossil from the Lower Miocene Sanhaogou Formation of the Jinggu Basin. After careful morphological studies and comparison with extant species, the researchers confirmed it as a new Mezoneuron pod fossil, and represented the first fossil occurrence of this genus in Asia and the only one within its current distribution range.

A research team led by Prof. CAI Lintao from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a series of membrane-localized tetrazine-functionalized Ruthenium (II) sonosensitizers for establishing a bioorthogonal-activated in situ tumor vaccine in an efficient and safe way.