South China Botanical Garden

Species specific height diameter relationships of dominant tropical rainforest trees in Kakamega Forest Kenya

Accurate height–diameter (H–DBH) relationships are fundamental for forest inventory, structural assessment, and biomass estimation in tropical forests, where direct measurement of tree height is often time-consuming, costly, and prone to error. Species-specific allometric models...

SaMYC2 acts as a key transcriptional activator of terpenoid biosynthesis and is subject to feedback regulation by SaGNAT01 in Santalum album L.

Santalum album L. (sandalwood) is an economically important tree species valued for its heartwood essential oil, which is primarily composed of terpenoids. However, the transcriptional regulatory mechanisms governing terpenoid biosynthesis in sandalwood remain poorly understood....

Ecological fitting in a deceptive trap flower: Aristolochia gibertii recruits native drosophilid flies outside South America

Deceptive pollination, in which plants lure pollinators without offering rewards, represents a sophisticated evolutionary strategy. The trap-flowers of Aristolochia provide an excellent system to study the coordinated evolution of floral morphology, chemistry, and phenology. Howe...

Ant Diversity of the Xisha Islands: Community Structure, Exotic Species Colonization, and Ecological Functions in a Tropical Coral Archipelago

ABSTRACT The Xisha Islands in the South China Sea are a typical tropical coral archipelago at the forefront of global climate change and anthropogenic disturbance, yet their ant diversity and ecological functions remain uncharacterized. In this study, we systematically surveyed a...

Comparative metabolomics, network analysis, and fraction-based in vitro evaluation of three Lagerstroemia species reveal bioactive compounds and potential for sustainable industrial applications

Lagerstroemia plants are widely cultivated as ornamental trees, while also being traditionally used in China and Southeast Asia as functional tea beverages, fragrant flowering trees, and herbal medicines, indicating their potential as industrial crops enriched with high-value bio...

The LrAN2-LrSOS3 regulatory module enhances salt tolerance and anthocyanin accumulation in Lycium ruthenicum

Abiotic stress-induced anthocyanin accumulation enhances stress tolerance and improves the quality of fruits, vegetables, and other horticultural crops. The promising natural blue colorant petanin, mainly derived from the wild resource of Lycium ruthenicum fruit, has attracted co...

Integration of Multi-Omics Reveals Genomic Features of Chromatin Accessibility in Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis Leaves

Chromatin accessibility is an important feature of cis-regulatory elements that shapes gene regulation in plants; however, it has been studied less frequently in traditional medicinal plants such as Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis (G. jasminoides). This study applied Assay for Trans...

CRISPR /Cas9‐Mediated Knockout of LbSP1 and LbSP5G1 Reveals Efficient Customization of Shoot Architecture in Black Goji Berry

ABSTRACT Goji is recognized as a nutritionally rich superfruit with medicinal and industrial importance. However, its inherently indeterminate growth habit causes asynchronous flowering and uneven fruit ripening, resulting in harvesting inefficiency with high labour costs and low...

Topographic decoupling of tree-mortality disturbances drives contrasting soil carbon fates via divergent microbial strategies

Climate change is exacerbating tree mortality worldwide, threatening the stability of forest soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks. However, how SOC responds to tree mortality amid co-occurring disturbances remains mechanistically unresolved. Here, we demonstrate that topography spati...

Declining hydraulic safety in a drier world

Forests worldwide are increasingly exposed to soil drought under climate change, with their fates depending on the ability to maintain essential functions like water transport (hydraulics) and photosynthesis. Acclimation is expected to mitigate drought impacts, but the extent to...

Trichoderma-Enabled Crop Resilience Under Abiotic Stress: From Field Delivery to Systems-Level Stress Reprogramming

Abiotic stresses increasingly threaten crop productivity, whereas reliance on chemical and resource-intensive interventions can compromise environmental sustainability. Existing literature identifies Trichoderma spp. as multifunctional biocontrol agents, biofertilizers, and micro...