The Way to the Sacred Land: Cherishing the wildlife and traditional culture of the Kailash Sacred Landscape” has been formally published recently.
Poisonous mushrooms are very rich and diverse in China. Lethal amanitas are a group of wild, deadly poisonous mushrooms containing cyclic peptide toxins, which are chemically stable and resistant to high temperatures.
China’s insatiable appetite for rubber, to satisfy its rapidly growing car market, is pushing rubber plantations into higher elevations and onto steeper slopes where rubber cultivation is no longer profitable and poses a significant threat to biodiversity.
China has so far avoided the massive losses of bees seen in the West, but the country’s diverse range of native bees face their own set of growing threats. A new study argues that these threats could have disastrous consequences for global food security and biodiversity.
ddRAD-seq is a reduced representation sequencing technology by sampling genome-wide restriction-site enzyme loci developed on the basis of next-generation sequencing. This technique has been widely applied to SNP marker development and genotyping on animals, especially on marine metazoa as the original ddRAD protocol was mainly built and trained based on animal data.
According to the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), agriculture and land-use change account for about 24% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Drug repurposing has become an important strategy for the development of novel anti-cancer drugs. Ciclopirox olamine (CPX), a broad-spectrum fungicide, was recently identified as a potential anticancer agent. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the anti-cancer effect of CPX are still unclear.
Most species in Pleurotus have great dietary and economic importance. Species in P. ostreatus species complex are widely cultivated in East Asia. Recently, researchers from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (KIB/CAS) rediscovered P. placentodes (Berk.) Sacc.
Flowering plants bring pollinators into contact with reproductive structures by providing olfactory or visual signals, and by rewarding visitors with nectar, pollen, and oils. In turn, pollinator preference and abundance influence a plant’s reproductive success.
