In a study published in Science of The Total Environment, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) 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) respond to the extreme drought in 2019 in Yuanjiang.

In a study published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) demonstrated interactive effects of soil multidiversity and plant diversity on the soil multidiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality (MEF) relationships. They showed that multitrophic soil organisms of different body sizes are a good predictor of soil biodiversity and are essential to maintain ecosystem multifunctionality in tropical land use systems.

In a study published in New Phytologist, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to resolve the water and nutrient relations in mistletoes compared with their hosts.The researchers found that mistletoe nutrient concentrations mainly depend on host nutrients, but other factors, such as environmental conditions, host life-history classification and mistletoe morphological traits also play important roles for some nutrients.

In a study published in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to reveal the biological functions of PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE1 (PHR1) in P deficiency-induced anthocyanin biosynthesis, by using molecular and genetic methods.

In a study published in Forest Ecology and Management, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) used the big data to map the potential artificial and natural tree coverage of the historical and revisited records of Engelhardia.

To verify and confirm the taxonomic status of Pueraria omeiensis, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) collected specimens of Pueraria species in Southwest China from 2018 to 2021. Both morphological characters and phylogenetic analyses strongly supported Pueraria omeiensis as a distinct species. They published it in Taiwania.

In a study published in Journal of Environmental Management, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to seek how to achieve sustainable park management, by integrating ecosystem services (ESs) into National Park delimitation to coordinate ecological restoration and economic development.

After morphological studies and literature, the researchers assigned the fossil endocarp from Jianchuan Basin to a new species and named it as Palaeosinomenium hengduanensis to refer to it type locality in the Hengduan Mountain Range.

In a study published in The Plant Cell, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) showed that exogenous auxin and JA synergistically activated ABA responses to suppress seed germination. The wild-type seeds simultaneously treated with ABA, indole-3-acetic acid (IAA), and methyl jasmonate (MeJA) displayed dramatically lower percentages of germination and expanded cotyledon greening compared with those treated with combined ABA and IAA or MeJA.

researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and Wuhan Botanical Garden (WBG) carried out a common garden litter decomposition experiment examining the combined effect of litter species diversity (in short: litter diversity) and soil fauna of different size classes on litter decomposition in the early phase of decomposition. They tried to answer whether and how the decomposition rates depend on the interactions between litter mixture species composition and soil fauna having access (categorized by size).

In a study published in The Plant Cell, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to reveal the role and mechanism of CO in jasmonate signaling. They revealed that CO is a negative regulator of jasmonate-imposed root growth inhibition and anthocyanin accumulation. It functions together with JAZ repressors and basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) subgroup IIId factors in jasmonate signaling.

In a study published in New Phytologist, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) reveal that the inoculation of Botrytis cinerea (an airborne plant pathogen with a necrotrophic lifestyle) activated the Fe deficiency response of plants, which further induced ethylene synthesis and then resistance to B. cinerea.