Research Advances in Plant Science in China in 2018

doi:10.11983/CBB19165

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Abstract: Plant science in China continues on the track of rapid development in 2018, with many remarkable achievements and a marked increase in number of original papers published in international top journals. The achivement “regulating the plant growth-metabolism balance to achieve sustainable agricultural development” was selected in the top ten progress of Chinese science in 2018, and “the history of angiosperm flora evolution in China” in the top ten progress of Chinese life science in 2018. Studies in rice and fruit and vegetable fields has been internationally leading. In this review, we summarize the significant progress in Chinese plant science in 2018, review the latest findings and hot events, and share the great achievements made by Chinese scientists.

Key words: China, plant science, research advances, 2018

Qian Qian, Xiaoquan Qi, Rongcheng Lin, Shuhua Yang, Aiwu Dong, Jianru Zuo, Fan Chen, Langtao Xiao, Hongya Gu, Zhiduan Chen, Yongfei Bai, Xiaojing Wang, Lei Wang, Liwen Jiang, Kang Chong, Tai Wang. Research Advances in Plant Science in China in 2018[J]. Chinese Bulletin of Botany, 2019, 54(4): 405-440.

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Figure 1 Research themes of Chinese scientists published in major journals of plant sciences (Molecular Plant, The Plant Cell, Plant Physiology and The Plant Journal) from 2016 to 2018 (data sources: Web of Science; data collected by July 2, 2019) Keyword co-occurence cluster of papers published by Chinese scientists in four plant science journals from 2016 to 2018 was constructed by VOSviewer. (A) The themes of 2016: Arabidopsis protein kinases and plasma membrane-dependent endocytosis under salt stress (blue); differentially expressed genes in rice and coding genes prediction (maize and barley), genome colinea- rity and DNA methylation and demethylation (red); Pseudomonas syringae induced cell death and systemic acquired resistance and immunity (orange); key enzymes of metabolism (such as alternative oxidase and synthase complexes), roles of NO in oxidative stress, cyclic electron flow of PSII and pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) (green); transcription factors, circadian clock and root development (yellow-green); flower development and floral organ identity and signaling pathways (light pink). (B) The themes of 2017: plant innate immunity, immunity activation, disease resistance and defense mechanism (blue); chlorophyll fluorescence of PSI and PSII, mitochondria and chloroplast gene family and related mutants (red); rice genome, metabolism and natural variation, RNA-seq, evolution and DNA methylation (green); salt stress of Arabidopsis (yellow-green); plant growth and development and water use efficiency (light pink). (C) The themes of 2018: Pseudomonas syringae induced cell death, disease resistance recognition and gene family response on stress (blue); evolution and domestication of polyploid species, flowering time and natural variation of rice, genome (maize, barley, etc.), genetic diversity of wheat (Aegilops tauschii), and collinear analysis (red); thylakoid membrane protein of PSI and PSII; phosphorylation in vivo, homologous recombination and triacylglycerol accumulation (green); plant growth and development and negative regulators; biosynthesis of chlorophyll and hormone (auxin and abscisic acid) proteins (purple); Arabidopsis plasma membrane proteins and cell tissue dynamics (yellow green).

Table 1 The number of plant science publications originating from four countries (China, America, Germany and France) from 2016 to 2018, based on four plant science major journals (MP, PC, PP and PJ) (data sources: Web of Science)

	2016年		2017年		2018年
	文章数量所占比例(%)		文章数量所占比例(%)		文章数量所占比例(%)
美国	369	36	373	35	366	35
中国	286	28	329	31	369	36
德国	198	19	208	19	180	17
法国	134	13	113	11	89	9
总载文量	1031		1072		1032

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