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2021-01-27Lihengjia, a new genus of Asteraceae was publishedAuthor: CHRN Yousheng E-mail: yschen@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tax.12428 Online time: 11 January 2021 Dubyaea is a genus of about 15 species belonging to Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae subtribe Crepidinae. All species of Dubyaea are distributed in the Pan Himalayan region and its adjacent areas. Stebbins once believed that the genus Dubyaea had ancestral groups of some widely distributed genera of tribe Cichorieae. Based on molecular phylogenetic s...Read More
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2021-01-26Study reveals how radial growth responses of two dominant conifers to climate in Central AsiaAuthor: KANG Jian E-mail: kangj@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108297 Online time: 2021-1-1 As a pivotal component of terrestrial biomes, forest ecosystems play a vital role in climate regulation, the hydrologic cycle and carbon sequestration. The boreal forest of the Holarctic is one of the earth’s largest biomes and is also one of the ecosystems that is most sensitive to climate change. This region is also the source of rivers in ma...Read More
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2021-01-25Research progress on accumulation and regulation of flavonol in Dendrobium plantAuthor: YU Zhenming E-mail: zhenming311@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00709-020-01599-6 Online time: 06 January 2021 Dendrobium officinale Kimura et Migo, which is a perennial herbaceous herb native to south and southeast Asia, belongs to the Orchidaceae. D. officinale stems are commonly used as a traditional Chinese herbal medicine to restore physical vitality, as it contains many beneficial compounds such as flavonoids, polysaccharides, and alkaloids.Read More
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2021-01-18SCBG reveals a new mechanism of the plant immunityAuthor: LI Yuge E-mail: liyuge@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaa007 Online time: 23 November 2020 Plants have evolved a set of highly sophisticated mechanisms to deal with environmental stresses and to survive in a cost-efficient manner. For example, upon pathogen attack, plants reallocate their limited resources away from growth towards defense against pathogens, and this trade-off between growth and defense is finely balanced to optimize f...Read More
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2021-01-15Climate Change increases coastal blue carbon sequestrationAuthor: WANG Faming E-mail: wangfm@scib.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaa296 Online time: 15 December 2020 Coastal wetlands are important ecosystems, especially in mitigating climate change. Prof. Faming Wang from South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Sanders from Southern Cross University, Australia worked together with several colleagues around the globe to examine coastal blue carbon burial rates. They showed that cl...Read More
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2021-01-13Prolonged time interval between leaf-out and floweringAuthor: MA Qianqian E-mail: maqianqian@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13558 Online time: 20 December 2020 Leaf-out and flowering are two key phenological events of plants, denoting the respective onsets of visible vegetative growth and reproduction during the year. For each species, the schedule of vegetative growth and reproduction is crucial to the maximization of its fitness. Warming-induced advances of leaf-out and flowering have been reported f...Read More
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2020-12-29Calculation of fungal and bacterial inorganic nitrogen immobilization rates in soilAuthor: LI Xiaobo E-mail: lixiaobo@scib.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114450, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.108114. Online time: 15 December 2020 The microbial immobilization of inorganic nitrogen (N) has a vital role in controlling the size of the soil inorganic N pool and is therefore an important mechanism for the retention of N in ecosystems. As the dominant microorganisms in soil, fungi and bacteria are probably the main participants in inorganic N immobilization. However, as a resul...Read More
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2020-12-28SCBG researchers reveal the mortality threshold for trees under drought on a global scaleAuthor: LIANG Xingyun E-mail: liangxingyun@scbg.ac.cn Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17117 Online time: 2020-11-29 Many areas on the earth are becoming drier under global warming. Meanwhile, in the past decades, drought-induced forest die-off has been recorded on every forested biome, exerting great effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, a general understanding of forest vulnerability to drought is lacking, because of our limited understan...Read More