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.
Cimicifuga spp. is well-known phytomedicine in world, its extraction have been generally used to treatment for women climacteric syndrome,osteoporosis etc.
Chlorella zofingiensis Donz, a unicellular microalga, is able to accumulate astaxanthin and lipids under certain environmental stresses or culture conditions.Transcriptome data revealed a great number of gene coding sequences involved in most primary and secondary metabolisms, including full coding sequences of all the genes for astaxanthin and TAG biosynthesis.
