Rethinking Conservation and Restoration Strategies of Endangered and Key Medicinal Plants in Yunnan-Kweichow Plateau's Karst Areas Under Climate Change.

The species, valued for their pharmaceutical, ornamental, and economic importance, exhibit notable rarity and endemism in the Karst areas of the Yunnan-Kweichow Plateau in China. These species face significant threats from habitat loss and fragmentation, leading to a decline in biodiversity. To mitigate these threats, the Maxent algorithm was employed to analyze current and future distribution patterns, with a particular focus on the influence of climate variables in predicting potential distribution shifts and assessing extinction risks under the optimistic SSP1-2.

Overexpression of , an F-box gene from , increased the plant branching in tobacco and rice.

Tea plant ( [.]) is one of the most important crops in China, and tea branch is an important agronomic trait that determines the yield of tea plant. In previous work focused on GWAS that detecting GWAS signals related to plant architecture through whole genome re-sequencing of ancient tea plants, a gene locus TEA 029928 significantly related to plant type was found.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi improve the competitive advantage of a native plant relative to a congeneric invasive plant in growth and nutrition.

Plant invasions severely threaten natural ecosystems, and invasive plants often outcompete native plants across various ecosystems. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, serving as beneficial microorganisms for host plants, can greatly influence the competitive outcomes of invasive plants against native plants. However, it remains unclear how AM fungi alter the competitive balance between native and invasive species.

Comprehensive evaluation of physicochemical properties and antioxidant activity of -fermented polished adlay subjected to different drying methods.

The physicochemical properties and antioxidant activity of -fermented polished adlay (BPA) subjected to different drying methods (hot-air drying, HAD; infrared-radiation drying, IRD; vacuum drying, VD; microwave-vacuum drying, MVD; and freeze-vacuum drying, FVD) were evaluated in this study. Results showed FVD was ideal for maintaining the natural appearance and higher contents of proximate compositions, free fatty acids, tetramethylpyrazine (6.91 mg/g DW), coixol (0.