Feralization is the evolutionary process by which domesticated crops or livestock re-acquire some wild-like traits and escape from intensive management to form independent reproducing populations. Feralization has interested biologists since Darwin, not only because of the implications for evolution but also because feral populations can become invasive and have severe ecological or agricultura...
The flowering plant tree of life, much like our own family tree, allows us to understand how different species are related to each other. The tree of life is revealed by comparing DNA sequences between different species to identify changes (mutations) that accumulate over time like a molecular fossil record. Our understanding of the tree of life is rapidly improving due to advances in DNA seque...
Ceremony for the Sistering of Botanical Gardens between Kunming Institute of Botany and the University of Padua and Symposium on China-Italy Biodiversity Conservation was successfully held.
As a main driving force in evolution, polyploidy (genome duplication) is ubiquitous across various evolutionary stages of the flowering plant tree of life. However, the interactions between the ancestral genomes in a polyploid nucleus, frequently involving subgenome dominance, are poorly understood.
a delegation of Korea Arboreta and Gardens Institute and Gachon University visited Kunming Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture of the UK Scottish Government, led a delegation to visit Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. KIB Director Puno Pematenzin welcomed Angus Robertson and his delegation.
a ceremony was held in Kunming to renew the cooperation agreement between Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (KIB/CAS) and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE).
n order to exchange the achievements and promote ethnobiology research for sustainable rural development through the discussions on Local communities, Biodiversity conservation, Sustainable livelihoods of the Belt and Road Countries, an international training workshop on ethnoecology and sustainable rural community development of the Belt and Road countries, sponsored by the International Coope...
Apart from some specialized systems, most plants are pollinated by animals foraging on flowers. The reason for an animal to look for a flower is the available resources, including pollens and nectar.
