Recently, researchers from University of Science and Technology of China and University of Toronto uncovered a catalysis strategy intermediates during CO2 electrochemical reduction reaction, which sheds new lights on upgrading CO2 to engine fuels. This discovery will inspire the design of efficient catalysts that produce higher-carbon liquid alcohols.
Dr. ZENG Fanjiang and Dr. GUI Dongwei from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, in collaboration with Dr. Muhammad Shareef from Pakistan, explored the drought adaptive and productivity potential of cotton in the desert environment with the use of deficit drip irrigation technique.
An international team describes the climate change-induced responses of the tropical atmospheric circulation and their impacts on the hydrological cycle. Their review also depicts the theoretically predicted changes and diagnoses physical mechanisms for observational and model-projected trends in large-scale and regional climate.
Due to complicated pattern of compositional affinities within floral biotas, traditional methods may be challenging for defining floristic units, especially focusing on the smaller floristic sub regions. Prof. SUN Hang's Group from Kunming Institute of Botany proposed a new concept of "Phylogeographic regionalization", which used the phylogeographic data to identify particularly evolutionarily distinct floras and named as "phylogeoregions".
Scientists at Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently found a novel endophytic actinobacteriun species, isolated from Anabasis aphylla L., a low, branching semi-shrub growing in the saline and clayey deserts and semi-deserts of Southeast, Middle, and Central Asia.
During a recent botanical survey of Chinese medicine plants in the same locality at Longpeng Town, Shiping County, Yunnan Province, China, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden collected some Gastrodia plants. They were very similar to Gastrodia angusta.
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