During a field study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden collected some lauraceous fossil woods from the Shengli Coal Mine, located near Meizi town in Ninger County, Yunnan Province, Southwest China. After careful anatomical and morphological studies, the researchers confirmed the fossil wood as a new species in the genus Cryptocarya.
A research group led by Profs. WANG Xiaochen and FENG Wei from the Institute of Biophysics has discovered a new lysosomal membrane fission factor and elucidated its mechanism of action.
Researchers led by Prof. XIAO Jun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, together with Prof. BAI Mingyi of Shandong University, have identified a gene module that regulates grain length in wheat, providing new insights into how the interaction between brassinosteroid and sugar signals influences grain size.
Researchers led by Prof. WANG Yanchang and Prof. GAO Lei from the Wuhan Botanical Garden, together with collaborators from the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, and The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, generated chromosome-scale reference genome assemblies of Actinidia arguta to dissect adaptive evolution and trait localization.
Researchers led by Prof. TU Yiheng from the Institute of Psychology, in collaboration with international experts, have found that individuals suffering from chronic musculoskeletal pain may face a higher high risk of brain aging.
Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and Anhui University provided the first quantification of the relative explanations of six factors that have been commonly considered to be associated with the interspecific variation in seed coat ratio, highlighting the important role of seed desiccation response and seed dormancy in explaining interspecific variation in the seed coat ratio.
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