Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and Yunnan University found a new succulent plant in Sichuan. Sinocrassula holotricha is a terrestrial or lithophytic, perennial, plant. It is hairy throughout, reaching 15–20 cm tall.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) uncovered the overlapping roles of two LEAFY (LFY) gene copies, GmLFYa and GmLFYb, in regulating the meristematic activity of compound leaf primordia during soybean compound leaf development. This discovery contributes to our understanding of how the trifoliate pattern in soybeans is established.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences introduced a DNA barcoding technique for rosewoods, employing whole-chloroplast genome sequences either as super-barcodes or as sources for pinpointing concise yet richly informative DNA barcoding regions.

Researchers analyzed the impacts of land use changes on plant community characteristics, soil P cycling dynamics, and soil physicochemical properties under different land use types. They also identified key predictors of available soil phosphorus.

Prof. Richard T. Corlett of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences sought to understand the mechanisms behind plant extinctions, specifically focusing on the relatively minor number of plant extinctions in recent years.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) established a DNA barcoding approach for rosewoods by utilizing whole-chloroplast genome sequences, either as super-barcodes or as sources to identify short but highly informative DNA barcoding regions.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their collaborators systematically evaluated the changes in the diversity patterns of 110 threatened timber species in China under the background of climate change. Based on various climate change models, they predicted the spatial distribution patterns and trends of multi-dimensional diversity of tree species in the future and evaluated the effectiveness of nature reserves in China in protecting the multi-dimensional diversity of timber tree species.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) applied space-for-time substitution and natural 13C abundance approaches to explore how land use changes in karst ecosystems influenced soil organic carbon and carbon flow pathways.

During a field survey of Pingxiang, Guangxi in November 2020, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) collected an unknown Begonia species with relatively small leaves on a limestone mountain, and brought it into cultivation in the garden. After consultation of herbarium specimens and review of relevant literature, the researchers confirmed that the species was new to science. They named it as Begonia pingxiangensis to refer to the type locality in Pingxiang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their collaborators tried to fill the knowledge gap of the uncertainty about the effects of micro/nano plastics on multi-trophic biological interactions and ecosystem functions, especially on plants and aboveground-underground (AG-BG) food webs.They made a comprehensive overview of MNPs ingestion, bioaccumulation, and the ecotocicological endpoints on plants and the associated key AG-BG biota across trophic level.