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2010-09-13Floral Ontogeny of Annonaceae: Evidence for High Variability in Floral FormAnnonaceae is a remarkably diverse family of Magnoliales. Ronse De Craene of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh,Britain investigated the floral development of 15 species with the scanning electron microscope to understand the basis for evolutionary change in flowers of Annonaceae. They also found an increase of stamen number is correlated with their... Annonaceae is a remarkably diverse family of Magnoliales. Dr. XU Fengxia of CAS South China Botanicla Garden and Dr. Ronse De Craene of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Britain investigated the floral development of 15 species with the scanning electron microscope to understand the basis for evolutionary change in flowers of Annonaceae. They fou...Read More -
2010-09-02Ancient Genome Duplications During the Evolution of Kiwifruit (Actinidia) and Related EricalesPaleopolyploidy refers to ancient genome duplications which occurred at least several million years ago. Due to functional redundancy,genes are rapidly silenced and/or lost from the duplicated genomes. The most recent event is consistent with previous cytological work on kiwi while the older event is shared by the common ancestor of Camellia and... Paleopolyploidy refers to ancient genome duplications which occurred at least several million years ago. The genome doubling event could either be an autopolyploidy or an allopolyploidy. Due to functional redundancy, genes are rapidly silenced and/or lost from the duplicated genomes. Most paleopolyploids, through evolutionary time, have lost the...Read More -
2010-08-24LI Jiayang Inspects South China Botanical GardenSU Ronghui(deputy director of Bureau of Life Sciences and Biotechnology,CAS),Dr. CHEN Guanghao(vice director of Guangzhou Branch of CAS)and other officials. WEI Ping,deputy directors of SCBG,the principal investigators of all research fields and other administrators warmly greeted the visiting group Prof. He also summarized the development plann... On Augest 20, Prof. LI Jiayang, the Vice President of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), made an inpection on South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), accompanied by Mr. KONG Fanwen, (director of Bureau of Capital Construction, CAS), Dr. SU Ronghui (deputy director of Bureau of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, CAS), Dr. CHEN Guanghao (vice director ...Read More
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2010-08-05IWGS Executive Director Larry Nau Visits SCBGMr. Larry Nau, the Executive Director of the International Waterlily & Water Gardening Society (IWGS), visited the South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences from July 27th to 28th. He was warmly received by Prof. HUANG Hongwen, director of SCBG, Prof. XIA Nianhe, vice director of Horticulture Research Center, Prof. TIAN Da...Read More