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Variations in resource and resource partitioning help maintain plant coexistenceIn a study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and Yunnan Normal University tried to explore the belowground competition dynamics among plant species from pairwise interactions to high-order interactions.Apr 18, 2022
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Pseudobartsia and Xizangia are recommended as independent genera: herbarium studyApr 13, 2022
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Increasing temperatures and drought decline tree growth of Toona ciliateIn a study published in Dendrochronologia, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) studied climate sensitivity and the growth of Toona ciliata, a long-lived broad-leaved tree species that grows in a wide range of environmental conditions throughout Asia, to the changing environment. They constructed tree-ring chronologies of T. ciliata from three tropical/subtropical forest stands in Yunnan, southwestern China.Apr 12, 2022
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Engelhardia plants exemplify transformation of vegetation across tropical Indochina Peninsula to subtropical ChinaIn a study published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) reconstructed the temporal history of Engelhardia, deciduous or evergreen trees in the walnut family. They aimed to investigate whether the transformation of subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests (EBLFs) in East Asia occurred from tropical elements, and the subtropical EBLFs were associated with the proposed dynamics of the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) since the Eocene.Apr 08, 2022
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Growth-climate sensitivity of two pine species varies with site-specific environmental conditionsIn a study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to explore the growth-climate sensitivity of pine species and its spatial heterogeneity across temperature and moisture gradients in Southwest China. They wanted to know what the predominant climatic factors limited tree radial growth and how growth-climate sensitivity of pine species changed along temperature and moisture gradients in Southwest China?Apr 06, 2022
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Alpinia hainanensis has potentials to aid treating ulcerative colitis: studyIn a study published in Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica found that the EtOAc-soluble fraction (AHE) of the A. hainanensis rhizome ethanol extract could ameliorate dextran sulfate sodium-induced ulcerative colitis (UC).Mar 30, 2022
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Drought stress advances and shortens growing season for Toona ciliataIn a study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) provide the first estimates of the seasonal dynamics of stem radial growth and xylogenesis of Toona ciliate and their responses to environmental conditions in Asian tropical forests.Mar 29, 2022
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New target gene found for engineering anthocyanins in plantsIn a study published in Journal of Experimental Botany, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) demonstrate that MtGSTF7, a TT19-like GST gene, is activated by the anthocyanin regulator LAP1 to determine the accumulation of anthocyanins, but not proanthocyanins, in Medicago truncatula, a model legume plant.Mar 24, 2022