Plant diversity loss is a global crisis demanding collective action to protect this vital resource and integrate it into sustainable development practices. The urgent need for global collaboration to conserve plant diversity was a central theme at the Parallel Forum on Integrated Conservation of Plant Diversity, held during the 5th World Biosphere Reserve Congress in Hangzhou.
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Researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, together with their collaborators, uncovered the molecular innovation that led to the origin of Type V CRISPR-Cas immune systems.
Researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and Prof. QIU Jinlong from the Institute of Microbiology developed a pioneering system that enables rapid and scalable directed evolution of diverse genes directly in plant cells.
Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Freie Universität Berlin showed that dance-following bees combine the dance vector with their cognitive memory of landmarks, and the follower bees form an expectation of the landscape features after learning the information of waggle dances.
A research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the origins of double-peaked narrow emission-line characteristics in galactic centers.
Prof. WANG Ding, Secretary-General of MAB China and a researcher at the lnstitute of Hydrobiology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, joined the Changjiang Dialogue to weign in the conservation efforts of Yangtze finless porpoises.
The Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST), a compact fusion experiment device under construction in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, has reached a major milestone with the successful installation of its first key component, the Dewar base, marking progress toward the world's first electricity generation from fusion power.
Chinese scientists have revealed the impact of hydrological changes of soil carbon components in the alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, according to the Northwest Institute of Eco-environment and Resources (NIEER) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The shifts in marine sulfate concentrations can flip the way that methane is consumed on the seafloor, acting as a geochemical switch that modulates Earth's climate, according to a research article published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The researchers of the study, from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry (GIG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), warned that a similar switch may emerge again as the modern Arctic Ocean warms and freshens at an accelerating pace.
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