In a study published in New Phytologist, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) quantified how different techniques affected the generated VCs. They tried to reveal the underlying artifacts or biases in some techniques when applied to long-vessel tropical plants. They further wanted to explore whether the application of some techniques is species-dependent, and can be explained by differences in xylem anatomy.

China-Lao PDR Transboundary Biodiversity Conservation Collaboration involves scientists from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute (SEABRI) of CAS working jointly on scientific expeditions, of which three have been carried out so far. The scientists dive headfirst into the wealth of life hidden deep in mysterious Laos.

In a study published in journal Cell, researchers from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University and Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) provided insights into the fig-wasp coevolution through comparative analyses of two Ficus genomes with and without aerial roots, monecious and dioecious, the genome of a coevolving wasp pollinator. They also sequenced more samples of figs and pollinators.

In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from Thailand’s Suranaree University of Technology and Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) revealed a worrying situation where a huge number of reptile species are being exploited, with little international regulation, implying a lack of reliable a priori estimates of the impact on wild populations.