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.

In a study published in New Phytologist, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their collaborators from Wageningen University and Research studied intra-annual stem growth and its climatic drivers for 14 common tree species in a montane, subtropical forest with a monsoon climate. They aimed to identify the role of atmospheric conditions and soil moisture in driving intra-annual stem growth variation – both timing and magnitude – of a tree community in a montane subtropical forest.

In a study published in Environmental Pollution, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) examined the effects of Fe3O4 NPs on Panax notoginseng under Cd and As stress. By combining physiological and metabolomic analyses, the researchers intended to examine the the mechanisms of the P. notoginseng seedling response to Cd/As stress with or without foliar exposure to Fe3O4 NPs.

In a recent study published in Palaeoworld, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) report well-preserved fossil leaves of Calophyllum from the late Oligocene–Early Miocene of Ban Pu sub-basin in Li Basin, Lamphun Province, northern Thailand. It is the first macrofossil record of this genus in Thailand.

In a study published in Plant Diversity, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) reported that two closely related figs with a longitudinal contact belt across Southeast Asia demonstrated reproductive isolation across their core contact range before hybridization signatures increase at northern climatic margins.

In a study published inScience of the Total Environment, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and Hohai University presented a new method for calculating urban socioeconomic development indexes using a variety of data sources.

During floristic exploration of Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province from 2021 to 2023, researchers from Xisuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) encountered an interesting Agapetes species. After a detailed examination of the morphological characters of the material and similar species, the researchers confirmed that the plant represented a species new to science. The new species is named Agapetes lihengiana in honor of Prof. LI Heng of Kunming Institute of Botany, who has made great contributions to our knowledge of the flora of Gaoligong Mountains in China. It was published in Taiwania on September 2.

In a study published in Nutrients, ZHANG Ping of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) reviewed recent advances in the understanding of diet and food components as contributing factors in the etiology of allergies, molecular targets of nutrient regulation of immune cells and structural cells involved in allergy, and clinical findings about nutrition intervention in treating allergic diseases.

During botanical exploration, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) collected an unknown species of Isotrema in the Menglai Grand Canyon, Cangyuan County, Yunnan Province. After careful morphological examination and literature review, they confirmed that it represented a new species. The new species was named as Isotrema cangyuanense to refer its type locality, Cangyuan County and published in Taiwania on August 24.

During a botanical exploration in October 2022 at the Tabu-tabu Biodiversity Monitoring Site of Pasonanca Natural Park in Philippines, a researcher from Xishuangbanna Tropical botanical Garden (XTBG) collected an unknown population of Sonerila species. After a careful examination of its morphology and consultation of relevant literature and type specimens of Sonerila species from the Philippines and neighboring countries, the researcher confirmed it as a species new to science. The new species was named as Sonerila mapelo and published in Taiwania.