Conquering complex natural products by total synthesis has always been a symbol of the advancement of organic chemistry. Total synthesis of challenging and complex natural products is also recognized as one of the toughest fields in the physical science. At present, Chinese chemists still lag far behind many of competitors from other developed countries in total synthesis of natural produc...
At present, natural product chemistry study has confronted with predicament, that is, the stereochemistry research. The three-dimensional structure of some compounds can not be effectively identified due to small quantity obtained in experiments, complex structure or other reasons. At the same time, it is found that biogenetic route for new compounds, which also became hot concerns of organic ...
Bambusoideae which encompasses approximately 1000 species around the world is the only subfamily that contains woody members in the grass family, Poaceae. Temperate woody bamboos are highly diverse in East Asia with varied habits and complex morphological features and are notorious for being taxonomically difficult and having a complicated taxonomy. As next-generation sequencing techniques have...
More and more research showed that plant secondary metabolites have a variety of ecological functions such as defense, attraction, signaling and UV protection. Researchers LI Shenghong and his colleagues, under the support of starting funding for talent introduction of Kunming Institute of Botany, the independent projects of State Key Laboratory and National Natural Science Foundation, establis...
Tuber F. H. Wigg. produce subterranean ascomata known as truffles in commercial market andis of great ecological importance and scientific value. Some of them are very popular edible mushrooms and called “black diamond” or “food of God” for their special flavor and high price. In recent years, by the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation...
In March 2011, with the support of related research project, members of SHUI Yumin’s research group of Kunming Institute of Botany went to Deqin and Heqing County in Yunnan province working for plant survey for about one week.
Owing to the construction road and unfortunately suffered heavy snow and small scaled rock and mud slides and landslide, the exploring process become relatively diff...
Two years after his landmark work, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”, Charles Darwin in a letter to Joseph Hooker, the assistant director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, wrote “I never was more interested in any subject in my life, than this of orchids”. In 1862, Darwin published a book “On the Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects” in wh...
Doctor ZHANG Ticao and Professor SUN Hang published their new findings on biogeographic implications of Dry-Hot (Warm) Valleys of Southwest (SW) China. Their findings suggest that tectonic events not only made the continuous range of organisms into disjunctive pieces, but also made the disjunctions into continuous.
It is commonly known that the topography of Hengduan Mountains, SW China, ha...
Soroseris, Stebbinsia, and Syncalathium are three genera of the sunflower family (Asteraceae) with restricted distributions on high screes of the Tibetan Plateau. A molecular analysis to test the monophyly of the genera, evaluate the phylogenetic relationships and construct their biogeographic diversification history.
Nuclear ITS and plastid trnL-F and psbA-trnH fragments were analyzed with...
