Mushrooms in the basidiomycete family Boletaceae are ecologically and economically very important, and have long attracted the attention of mycologists from different parts of the world. Some of these boletes have great economic, dietary, and health value, and some other boletes are poisonous, predominantly causing gastrointestinal symptoms of nausea and violent vomiting if eaten raw or fried. ...
Recently, the Research Group in Fungal Diversity and Molecular Evolution, Kunming Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Science, has described a new genus, Cibaomyces Zhu L. Yang, Y.J. Hao & J. Qin, of Physalacriaceae. The type species of this genus is Cibaomyces glutinis Zhu L. Yang, Y.J. Hao & J. Qin. The known distribution is southwestern China and northern Japan. “Cibao-” refers to ...
Research Group of the Plant Evolution in the Karst Plant in Kunming Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences, achieved some new findings about the endemic genus Petrocodon in Gesneriaceaeto Chinese Karst regions. The main contentsare following:
Firstly, three new species of Gesneriaceae, Petrocodon ainsliifolius, Petrocodon lithophilus, Petrocodon viridescens, from limestone areas of...
Both nitric oxide (NO) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) are important signals that mediate plant response to environmental stimulation. Their role in plants’ allelopathic interactions has also been reported, but the underlying mechanism remains little understood. p-Hydroxybenzoic acid (pHBA) has been proposed to be an allelopathic chemical.
Recently, Dr. GUAN Yanlong advised by Profs. HU Xiang...
Heteromorphy in flowers has a profound effect on breeding patterns within a species, but little is known about how it affects reproductive barriers between species. The heterostylous genus Primula is very diverse in the Himalaya region, but hybrids there have been little researched.
Chloroplast sequencing, AFLP (amplified fragment length polymorphism) markers and morphological comparisons w...
New genes are critical for speciation, evolution and adaptation of species. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is an important way of acquiring new genes and its occurring scales and biological significance have been extensively investigated in prokaryotes and unicellular eukaryotes. In higher plants, HGT events have been found mainly between the organelle genomes from different plants and were rar...
Alternaria alternata is a necrotrophic pathogenic fungus, causing severe lost in many economic plants such as potato, pear, citrus, and tobacco. By using wild tobacco Nicotiana attenuata as a model plant, researchers in Kunming Institute of Botany find that host plants can defend themselves by closing their stomata by quickly activation of ABA signaling and mitogen activated protein kinase 4.
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Camellia taliensis (Theaceae) is endemic from western Yunnan province of China to northern Myanmar. Its leaf has been collected to produce beverage that is alike the tea from C. sinensis var. assamica but has its specific characteristic constituents. The tea probably made from C. taliensis was recorded 1300 years ago, and this species has been cultivated throughout western Yunnan at least for h...
Archaea lived in extreme environments (alkaline, acidic, extremely cold, extremely hot, hypersaline), represent one kind of special microorganisms. Haloarchaea belongs to the domain of Archaea, were widely distributed in hypersaline environments. It contains many applications in medicinal and bio-chemical industries. The researches on the halo-plasmid will pave the way for the exploitation and ...
