Pufan Gao

TL;DR: A systematic analysis on the effects of growth years and post-harvest processing on the contents of medicinal active ingredients of S. baicalensis showed that the best harvesting period should be determined as 2–3 years based on comprehensive evaluation of active ingredient content, annual yield increment, and land use efficiency.

TL;DR: This study revealed the climate-change-driven habitat shifts of six endangered wetland plants and found that the six species exhibited three different patterns of habitat shifts including decrease, unstable, and increase, highlighting the importance of combining multiple environmental factors including temperature and precipitation for understanding plant responses to climate change.

TL;DR: A comprehensive evaluation on the potential geographical distribution of the four medicinal crops was conducted based on the maximum entropy (Maxent) modeling and it was found that A. membranaceus and R. glutinosa shared similar potential habitats which mainly located in northern China, while C. chinensis and S. ningpoensis shared similar potentially located in South and Central China.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors conducted a comprehensive and systematic analysis on the distribution patterns of main biofuel crops in China, using 22,352 occurrence records of 31 biofuel plant species and thirty-year environmental variables with maximum entropy modeling, as well as nine-year field investigation of land use.

TL;DR: There were significant differences between functional traits and bioactive products of C. officinalis in ORs and in IR, and the correlations among functional traits, bioactive Products, and environmental factors were analyzed.