Recently, the renowned academic journal in the field of botany 《The Plant Journal》 published online the newest research achievements of the team of Zhang Liangsheng of the Center for Genomics and Biotechnology of the Cross-strait Joint Research Institute on Crassulacean Acid Metabolism/CAM. The paper comprehensively analyzed the gene families of fixing process of the CAM photosynthetic system, and revealed the molecular mechanism of CAM pathway in arethusa.

Professor Zhang Liangsheng was both the first author and the corresponding author of the paper, and FAFU was the research unit of the first author.The achivements were jointly finished by Professor Liu Zhongjian of the Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Professor Cheng Zongming of Nanjing Agricultural University and the University of Tennessee.

The article link:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.13159/full

Correspondant/Photogragher: the Cross-strait Joint Research Institute

Translator: Zheng Wei

Auditor: College of Crop Science   Lu Yunhai