Queensland is widely known as the land clearing capital of Australia. But what's not so well known is many of the cleared ...

Bamboo plants add a touch of exotic elegance to any garden with their graceful, swaying canes and lush evergreen foliage. Creating a bamboo garden can transform your outdoor space into a tranquil ...

In Shanghai, many parks are off-limits to digging up wild plants. For example, Gongqing Forest Park in Yangpu District, a popular hiking destination, specifically has rules banning "digging up wild ...

A new study led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden has uncovered a ...

The country is the second largest cultivator of the plant but lags far behind China in the global market due to poor policies ...

One Hong Kong-based Malaysian family felt that way about the soothing, otherworldly bamboo forests of Kyoto, Japan. But since it wasn’t practical for Daniel Tan, a stay-at-home dad, and See See ...

1 National Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Forest Food Resources ... Although transcriptomics has been widely used to study plant-environment interactions, its application to bamboo ...

A new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned that the genetic diversity of plants and forests is at risk. The Third Report on the State of the World’s ...

The Growing Threat to Plant Genetic Diversity Plant ... along with 1,600 woody bamboo species and 500 rattans (climbing palms), forests play a crucial role in ecological balance and human livelihoods.

There are approximately 58,000 tree species worldwide, about 1,600 woody bamboo species ... deforestation, forest degradation, climate change, fires, pests, diseases, and invasive species are ...