With an aim to improve the gardeners and students’ ability in the application of Latin in botanical research, XTBG has organized a 13-day Latin training course at the headquarters during March 22 and April 3. Prof. Su Zhiyun from CAS Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB) was invited as the keynote teacher.

    About 50 young scientific personnel and graduate students attended the training course. The course was designed to give students an introduction to basic Latin for plant taxonomy. During the total 39 teaching hours, Latin pronunciation, grammar, syntax and its applications in plant description were taught.

     As an experienced teacher in Latin training, Prof. Su Zhiyun conducted the language lesson very well and attached importance to interactions with students. The training course ended up with a complete success.