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  China-Aid Project “the International Training Course for Establishment and Management of Field Research Station” Ended Successfully on 22 July in Beijing

  Sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce of China, undertaken by Institute of Botany, the China-Aid Project “the International Training Course for Establishment and Management of Field Research Station” started on 23 June and ended successfully on 22 July in Beijing.

  Jul 30, 2008
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  New plant R&D center to address energy issues

  The joint launching ceremony for the Research and Development Center for Energy Plants, the CAS Institute of Botany (IOB), and the R&D Laboratory for Sweet Sorghum, which is to be co-established by IOB and the Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) in Singapore, was held on 10 December at IOB in Beijing.

  Dec 10, 2007
• Large-scale gardens for energy-rich plants to be set up at CAS

  Feb 28, 2007
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  Plant ecologist to head the CAS Institute of Botany

  Jun 20, 2006
• Plant Genomics in China

  Jun 27, 2005
• Sixteen CAS scientists receive HLHL prize for S&T progress

  Nov 12, 2004
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  In commemoration of 30 years S&T cooperation

  Nov 12, 2004
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  Chinese Scientists Reveal Hidden Extinction Crisis in Native Flora

  A team led by Dr. SHEN Guozhen from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with domestic and international collaborators, has revealed a "hidden extinction crisis" in China's flora over the past four decades. The study, published in One Earth on 3 September, integrates satellite-derived land-cover data (1980-2018) with species-composition models to quantify, for the first time at a national scale, how habitat loss reshapes extinction risk for entire plant communities.

  Sep 01, 2025
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  The Tree Growth-Herbivory Relationship Depends on Functional Traits Across Forest Biodiversity Experiments

  A new study published on Nature Ecology & Evolution has revealed a positive relationship between tree growth and insect herbivory, as well as between tree species richness and herbivory. ​The research, conducted by an international team of scientists and led by Prof. LIU Xiaojuan from Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS), based on data from 8,800 trees across 80 species in nine biodiversity experiments from Tree Diversity Network (TreeDivNet) in various biomes.

  Aug 31, 2025
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  Uncovering Fast Decomposition of Nitrogen-Rich Mineral-Associated Organic Matter in Soils

  A recent study published in Global Change Biology reveals that nitrogen (N)-rich mineral-associated organic matter (MAOM) decomposes more rapidly than expected. This finding challenges the prevailing view that microbe-derived N-containing compounds are strongly sorbed to mineral surfaces and hence resistant to degradation.

  Aug 25, 2025