Plant sciences
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New progress has been made in the research on the accumulation mechanism of soil organic carbon in agriculture
Carbon and nitrogen inputs strongly affect the formation, turnover and sequestration of soil organic carbon (SOC) in agroecosystems. However, it…
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Sources of aerosol black carbon in the South China Sea and Northeast Indian Ocean and their effects revealed
Recently, Geng Xiaofei, a postdoctoral fellow at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and researcher Zhang Gan,…
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Scientists have developed liquid metal-based self-oscillating heterogeneous film materials
With the miniaturization of electronic devices and the integration of flexible wearable devices, the research of harvesting energy from the…
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New research reveals multiple limits to forest carbon sinks
Liu Hui, associate researcher of the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and her collaborators discussed…
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Metal-organic framework materials improve the carbon sequestration efficiency of photosynthesis
In natural photosynthesis, plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to synthesize biomass. However, the photosynthesis efficiency of plants is…
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The study found a nitrogen-mediated mechanism of phosphorus supply regulating soil organic carbon pool
Recently, researchers from the Phosphorus Biogeochemistry Research Group of the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,…
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The tropics get hot, and the leaves of the rainforest trees wither
If it’s too hot, the leaves of rainforest trees may wither Image Credit: Ghislain & Marie David de Lossy/Getty Images…
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New research reveals carbon-water trade-offs for cooling technologies in the global thermal power industry
Climate change and water scarcity are two of the world’s major challenges. As the world’s largest anthropogenic source of carbon…
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Machine learning accelerates nanoscale 3D X-ray imaging
Guide Researchers at MIT and Argonne National Laboratory have developed a machine learning-based method (APT) that can accelerate non-invasive imaging…
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New progress has been made in the study of plant water use and adaptation mechanism in key zones of karst slope
Karst carbonate rocks undergo strong dissolution in the vertical direction, so that precipitation is dispersed and infiltrated through the fractures…
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