Focusing on five beaked Pedicularis species within the community that do not produce nectar and their three primary pollinating bumblebees, researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a five-year field experiment to investigate in depth the factors that influence bumblebee flower-visiting preferences.
The researchers led by Prof. SUN Linfeng from the University of Science and Technology of China, together with Prof. Eugenia Russinova from the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, discovered the first brassinosteroid (BR) exporter and presented its structure in both the substrate-unbound and the BR-bound states.
Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden investigated the differences in flower water use strategies between basal angiosperms and derived groups (monocots and dicots).
A research team led by Prof. ZHAO Yan from the Institute of Biophysics has revealed three different conformations of the full-length wild-type human GlyT1 transporter, firstly providing the elucidation of substrate recognition and the mechanism by which three anti-schizophrenia drug candidates selectively inhibit GlyT1.
A research team led by Dr. ZHOU Wen from the Institute of Psychology has discovered that this process of "smelling" involves an analysis of submolecular structural features.
Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators investigated the variation in fine root tubular traits along topological orders within and across tropical tree species. They also explored how the fine root traits are affected by environmental factors, species characteristics, and ecological niches.
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