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  • Special Issue of Plant Diversity for Plant Species with Extremely Small Popul...

    Plant Diversity has release the special issue of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations (PSESP). 

  • The Way to the Sacred Land: Cherishing the Wildlife and Traditional Culture o...

    The Way to the Sacred Land: Cherishing the wildlife and traditional culture of the Kailash Sacred Landscape” has been formally published recently. 

  • Scientists Unveil Poisonous Mushroom in China

    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 Rubber Expansion Could Stretch Biodiversity and Livelihoods to the L...

    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.

  • Save China’s Wild Bees to Safeguard Global Food Supply

    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.

  • An Optimized ddRAD Library Preparation Approach

    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. 

  • The Missing Link in Carbon Accounting

    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. 

  • The New Anti-Cancer Mechanism

    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. 

  • Chinese Scientists Rediscover Lost Fungus After 164 Years

    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. 


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