Since 1997 when the “golden oriole” was introduced in Yunnan for floriculture, its ornamental value has been recognized and has enjoyed large-scale cultivation and brought economic benefits. Its products are sold in many other provinces of China. However, because its morphology is very similar ...
Climate stresses, which include high and low temperatures, are the major factors that limit the geographic distribution of plants. Maintaining the integrity and fluidity of membranes is of fundamental importance for plants to survive high or low temperature stress. Changes in the degree of u...
There are three species in Trigonobalanus of Fagaceae: T. verticillata is distributed in Hainan, China (China's new record) and several islands in Malaysia and Indonesia; T. doichangensis, in northern Thailand, south and southwest of Yunnan Province (new record in China in 1981); T. excels, in Co...
Yangbi maple Acer yangbiense, a new tree species described in 2003, is known from only four individuals scattered in the secondary woods on the western slopes of the Canshan Mountain range in Dali, in the west of Yunnan Province, China. Kunming Botanical Garden (KBG) under Kunming Institute of Bo...
After the publication of the Study of Plant Cyclic Peptide which produced an important summary in Chemical Reviews (2006, 106: 840, impact factor ranks first in Chemistry), which received the first prize of Yunnan Natural Science (2006), researcher TAN Ninghua was awarded funding from the Nationa...
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau lies in the heart of Asia and a steady stream of its glacier melt injects into the top ten rivers in Asia. The effects of climate change exceed the global average. Research found that the higher the more obvious the temperature elevation is. A paper by researcher XU Jian...
