Withe assignment of 66.0 Ma as the stem node, the divergence age of Bauhinia was in the earliest Paleocene. The analysis showed that Bauhinia tibetensis is from the latest Paleocene (about 56 million years ago) of the southern Tibetan region. Bauhinia tibetensis is the earliest fossil record and a representative of the crown node for Bauhinia.

In a recent study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and University of Plymouth used 3-T method to study thermal regulation strategies of leaves along a temperature and precipitation gradient.

In a study published in Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) investigated the effects of seven years of understory vegetation management on soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (STN) storage in tropical rubber plantations in Southwest China.

In a new study published in Physiologia Plantarum, the researchers further explored how the MIO1 protein regulates organ size. They performed a yeast library screening and isolated a potential interactor, MtKIX8, by using MIO1 as the bait.

In a new study published in Planta, the researchers reported the effect of JcSEUSS1 functions on the reproductive growth stage of Jatropha by systematically overexpressing and silencing the JcSEUSS1 gene. They found that overexpression of JcSEUSS1 exhibited a negative effect on reproductive growth, and silencing of the JcSEUSS1 gene had a remarkable effect on the development of flowers, fruits, and seeds, resulting in a significant increase in seed yield.

With the help of three citizen scientists, an unknown Cryptocoryne population was found in one of the streams of Zamboanga del Norte province, western Mindanao in March 2023. After careful morphological studies and literature review, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their collaborators confirmed the unknown species was distinctive and new to science. The new species was named Cryptocoryne zamboangaensis to refer to Zamboanga Peninsula where this species was discovered. The result was published in Nordic Journal of Botany.

During a botanical survey in Malipo County, Yunnan Province in 2022, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) collected an interesting unknown species of Zingiber. Its inflorescences are produced terminally on the leafy shoots, the researchers confirmed it belonging to he Zingiber sect. Dymczewiczia.

In a study published in Evolution Letters, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) investigated both pre- and post-zygotic isolation in a sympatric fig pair consisting of F. heterostyla and F. squamosa, based on chemical cues, key morphological traits, and manipulative experiments. They aimed to document what the final stages of speciation was likely to be between the two closely related species.

In 2020, a researcher found an unknown Begonia species characterized by having sessile leaf and on this species. After careful examination of the morphology of the species by using the collected materials, color photographs, comparing with affiliated species and, reviewing the relevant literature and digitized herbarium specimens, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) confirmed it new to science and was the fifth representative of the Begonia sect. Monophyllon A.DC.

In a study published in Ecology Letters, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) investigated the relationship between community phytochemical diversity and herbivore-induced leaf damage, by integrating untargeted metabolomics, a plastome-based phylogeny, and a long-term tropical forest monitoring plot of 358 species.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) conducted studies in the Ailao Mountains in Yunnan Province to explore the differentiation of N sources of epiphyte groups. They employed stable isotope analysis to explore N acquisition and differentiation among co-occurring epiphytes in Ailaoshan subtropical forest.