Nearly 2,000 gene banks around the world hold the genetic resources of plants, from seed to stem and more, sampled from all crops — even those that were never cultivated or haven’t grown in a century. These time capsules hold the potential to improve future crops with unknown or previously undesired genes as plant diseases evolve and climate changes. The practical implementation has fallen short, though, largely due to a disconnect between gene banks’ data management and the identification of candidate species, according to an international research team. The result is typically a less diverse breed without the ability to incorporate untapped resistant genes. To rectify this, the researchers developed a genomics-informed pre-breeding strategy that predicts genomic information within and across gene banks, pinpointing the best parent candidates for the desired plant characteristics in wheat.

A research group led by Prof. LIU Zhaoping at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has proposed an analytical approach to quantitatively evaluate the reversibility and irreversibility of practical lithium-metal batteries (LMBs).

A research team from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), have found that Synechococcus and the bacteria that feed on them may have an inherent tendency toward mutualism and will undergo significant changes to encourage each other’s survival.

The 100 MW Dalian Flow Battery Energy Storage Peak-shaving Power Station, with the largest power and capacity in the world so far, was connected to the grid in Dalian, China, on September 29, and it will be put into operation in mid-October.

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) has detected nearly 2,000 radio bursts from FRB 20201124A. The team's research strongly indicates that FRB 2021124A is embedded in a complicated, dynamically evolving magnetized environment.

A trove of fossils, unearthed in rock from China dating back some 436 million years, has revealed for the first time that the mysterious galeaspids, members of an extinct clade of jawless fish, possessed paired fins.

An international team of researchers has discovered 439-million-year-old remains of a toothed fish that suggest the ancestors of modern osteichthyans (ray- and lobe-finned fish) and chondrichthyans (sharks and rays) originated much earlier than previously thought.

Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have recently discovered two fossil repositories in the early Silurian strata in southwestern Chongqing and Guizhou, which are rewriting the evolutionary story of "from fish to human".

A newly discovered fossil “treasure hoard” dating back some 436 million years to the early Silurian period reveals, for the first time, the complete body shape and form of some of the first jawed fishes.