supported by the Yunnan Ten Thousand Talents Plan Young&Elite Talents Project(YNWR-QNBJ-2018-017);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32371564);the Key Project of Basic Research of Yunnan Province,China(202101AS070035;202301AS070001)to G.Chen;Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Talent and Platform Plan(202305AM070005).
Mimetic seeds attract birds to disperse seeds mainly by mimicking fleshy fruits or arillate seeds,however,they provide little nutritive reward for bird dispersers.The key characteristics of mimetic seeds are conspicuo...
supported by NSFC(32070226,32360065);the Key Projects of the Joint Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(U23A20149);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(2024QZKK0200);Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects(202101AS070032);the CAS“Light ofWest China”Program(xbzg-zdsys-202110);the Yunnan Innovation Team Project(202305AS350004,with LD/NY/SB/CJG/CJH as the core member).
The genus Salix is a common component of the Northern Hemisphere dendroflora with important ecological and economic value.However,taxonomy and systematics of Salix is extremely difficult and relationships between main...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC Grant Nos.32171605,31770406);Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province(Grant No.2023NSFSC0141)to Y.D.Gao.
Species boundaries are dynamic and constantly challenged by gene flow.Understanding the strategies different lineages adopt to maintain ecological and genetic distinctiveness requires employing an integrative species ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32360058);the Central Government Guides Local Science and Technology Development Projects,China(2023ZYZX1224);Xinjiang University Excellent Doctoral Student Innovation Project(XJU2022BS051)。
The black wolfberry(Lycium ruthenicum;2n=2x=24)is an important medicinal plant with ecological and economic value.Its fruits have numerous beneficial pharmacological activities,especially those of anthocyanins,polysac...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant no.32270238 and 31870311).
Subtropical evergreen broad-leaved trees are usually vulnerable to freezing stress,while hexaploid wild Camellia oleifera shows strong freezing tolerance.As a valuable genetic resource of woody oil crop C.oleifera,wil...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42171071,42211540718);Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,CAS(ZDBS-LY-7001);Yunnan Fundamental Research Projects(202401AT070190,202201BC070001);Top-notch Young Talents Project of Yunnan Provincial“Ten Thousand Talents Program”(YNWR-QNBJ-2018-146,YNWR-QNBJ-2020-293);CAS“Light of West China”Program;supported by the China Scholarship Council(202304910135 and 202304910138)for a one-year study at the University of Toronto.
Integrative data from plastid and nuclear loci are increasingly utilized to resolve species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships within major angiosperm clades.Debregeasia(Urticaceae),an economically important ge...
co-supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFF0800800);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41988101-01,42130205);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(2019QZKK0707)。
The utilization of palynological data for plant diversity reconstructions offers notable advantages in addressing the discontinuity of plant fossils in the stratigraphic record. However, additional studies of modern p...
The future distribution of invading species depends on the climate space available and certain life history traits that facilitate invasion.Here,to predict the spread potential of plant species introduced in North Ame...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number 31901109);Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(grant number 2021A1515110744).
Understanding how and why assemblage dissimilarity changes along spatial gradient is a great challenge in ecology,because answers to these questions depend on the analytical types,dimensions,and components of beta div...