Professor XIAO Jun's team from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) focused on the allohexaploid wheat and constructed a "reference epigenome" of wheat embryogenesis.
During a botanical exploration in Luzhi River valley, Yunnan, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden collected an unknown Ceropegia species belonging to sect. Chionopegia. After a literature review and morphological studies, the researchers confirmed that it was a new species to science.
Land snails and their mucus were used in ancient times by Hippocrates and Pliny to treat pain associated with burns, abscesses and other wounds. Inspired by this ancient therapy, Prof. WU Mingyi and his team at the Kunming Institute of Botany identified a natural biological adhesive from snail secretions, evaluated its in vitro adhesion properties and studied its in vivo effects on wound healing.
Researchers led by Prof. ZHOU Xuming from the Institute of Zoology used phylogenetic comparative methods to analyze data on various traits from about 1,000 mammalian species, including maximum lifespan, body mass, sociality, lifestyle, ecological factors, life history traits, and phylogenetic relationships.
In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden investigated how hydraulic traits and gas exchange parameters of savanna plants with different leaf habits (deciduous, semi-deciduous and evergreen) or growth forms (tree and shrub) responded to the extreme drought in 2019 in Yuanjiang.
Recently, researchers from the Beijing Institute of Genomics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China National Center for Bioinformation) have developed and released Database Commons—a catalog of worldwide biological databases.
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