Achievements and Advances of Plant Sciences Research in China in 2023

doi:10.11983/CBB24059

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Abstract: In 2023, the numbers of original research articles published by Chinese plant scientists in mainstream plant science journals increased significantly improved compared with that in 2022, and important advances have been made in the fields of regulation of intraspecific and interspecific reproductive isolation in Brassicaceae by stigma receptors, supercomplex structure of chloroplast TOC-TIC, mechanisms of crop yield, disease resistance, stress tolerance, the origin and spread of grapes and citrus plants, and the evolution of modern maize, millet and potato germplasm resources. Among them, “Crop Salt and Alkali Tolerance Mechanisms and Applications”, and “A New Method for Precise Manipulation of Single Base to Large Fragment DNA” in 2023 were selected as two of the “Top Ten Advances in Plant Sciences in China”; “The Molecular Mechanism of Mentor Pollen Effect in Plant Distant Hybridization” was selected as one of the “Top Ten Advances in Life Sciences in China” in 2023. Here we summarize the achievements of plant science research in China in 2023, by briefly introducing 30 representative important research advances and sorting out the experimental materials used in plant science research, so as to help readers understand the trend of plant science development in China, and evaluate future research direction to meet major national strategic needs.

Key words: China, plant sciences, research advance, 2023

Fan Chen, Hongya Gu, Xiaoquan Qi, Rongcheng Lin, Qian Qian, Langtao Xiao, Shuhua Yang, Jianru Zuo, Yongfei Bai, Zhiduan Chen, Zhaojun Ding, Xiaojing Wang, Liwen Jiang, Kang Chong, Lei Wang. Achievements and Advances of Plant Sciences Research in China in 2023[J]. Chinese Bulletin of Botany, 2024, 59(2): 171-187.

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Table 1 The numbers of papers published by scientists from China, America, Germany, UK and France in the five major journals of plant sciences (MP, NP, PC, PP and PJ) from 2021 to 2023 (data sources: Web of Science)

	2021年		2022年		2023年
	文章数量	占比(%)	文章数量	占比 (%)	文章数量	占比 (%)
中国	630	45	709	52	815	56
美国	437	31	399	30	359	25
德国	230	16	172	13	206	14
英国	145	10	129	10	134	9
法国	104	7	93	7	112	8

Figure 1 The proportion of papers published by scientists from China in international multidisciplinary journals (Science, Nature and Cell) (A) and mainstream plant science journals (MP, NP, PC, PP and PJ) (B) from 2021 to 2023 using rice, maize, wheat and Arabidopsis as research materials (data sources: Web of Science) Note: When two or more species are used as research materials in a paper, this paper is counted more than once accordingly. The total number of papers published in the three international multidisciplinary journals (Science, Nature and Cell) using rice, maize, wheat and Arabidopsis as research materials was 26 in 2021, 28 in 2022, and 27 in 2023, respectively. The total number of papers published in the five mainstream plant science journals (MP, NP, PC, PP and PJ) using rice, maize, wheat and Arabidopsis as research materials was 547 in 2021, 630 in 2022, and 659 in 2023, respectively. MP, NP, PC, PP and PJ are the same as shown in Table 1.

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