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  Workshop on Mapping Asia Plants (MAP): Southeast Asia Plant Database Development Held in Beijing

  Dec 14, 2016
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  How do plants response to stress?

  Dec 06, 2016
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  New epigenetic regulator of seed dormancy and germination: Histone deacetylase binding factor SNL1 and SNL2

  Dec 02, 2016
• International Training Course on Long-term Ecosystem Monitoring (ITC-LTEM) and Workshop on China-Africa S&T Cooperation in Resource and Environment Field

  Sep 23, 2016
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  Researchers Found Chloroplasts Function as Essential Sensors of High Light to Regulate Flowering

  Sep 07, 2016
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  Le’s Group revealed the role of plant actin-related protein ARP3 in gravitropism

  Sep 02, 2016
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  Dr. QIN Feng’s group found ZmVPP1 gene contributes to drought tolerance in maize seedlings

  Maize is a major crop grown for food, feed and fuel, however its production is threatened by drought stress worldwide. Thus, there is tremendous interest in and demand for improving maize drought tolerance through biotechnology. Identification of the genetic components underlying drought tolerance in maize is of great importance.

  Aug 12, 2016
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  Meeting for Asia Regional Members Committee of IUCN was successfully held on 11-13 July, 2016in Beijing, China

  Jul 19, 2016
• New progress on Tibetan permafrost carbon inventory by Prof. YANG Yuanhe’s group of the IBCAS

  Permafrost is ice-containing soil, rock or sediment that is frozen for more than two consecutive years. Most permafrost is distributed in cold regions (high latitudes or high altitudes) across the Northern Hemisphere. During the last few decades, permafrost regions have experienced significant climate warming with widespread occurrence of permafrost thawing such as active layer deepening and thermal erosion. These thawing processes could result in the release of frozen carbon stock into the atmosphere, triggering positive carbon-climate feedback. Reliable evaluation of the permafrost carbon stock is the scientific basis for better understanding the direction and strength of the permafrost carbon-climate feedback. However, due to the lack of systematic field observations and appropriate upscaling methodologies, substantial uncertainties exist in the permafrost carbon budget, which limits our understanding on the fate of frozen carbon in a warming world.

  Jun 12, 2016
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  Novel metabolic mechanism underlying the adaptation of chilling tolerance in rice — Rapid ROS induction mediated metabolic response determines the degree of chilling tolerance in rice

  May 31, 2016