The reporter recently learned from the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences , that researchers from the Southwest China Wildlife Germplasm Bank and other units have conducted investigations and collections of germplasm resources in a number of tiankengs around Mengzi City, and have successively discovered the "Hundred Years Encounter.
Chinese Academy of Sciences Tiankeng is a large-scale sink-like negative landform formed by the limestone strata in karst area passing through the underground river continuously scouring the rock formations and finally the surface collapses.
In order to effectively preserve the germplasm resources of species in this special habitat, in early 2021, with the support of the Alpine Science Promotion Center, the Southwest China Wildlife Germplasm Bank, in conjunction with the Honghe Prefecture Forestry and Grassland Bureau A preliminary investigation was carried out on this tiankeng
The results of this tiankeng investigation and collection are quite fruitful.
Fortunately, in the surrounding area of Tiankeng, the collection team also obtained the mature seeds of another "Hundred Years Encounter" plant-Zhusheng Goat Milk
The Southwest China Wildlife Germplasm Bank was proposed by the famous Chinese botanist Wu Zhengyi, and a major national scientific and technological infrastructure was built in Yunnan in 2007
"Disappeared" sub-fruit milk Chikubu hundred years ( CAS Kunming Institute of Botany for map)
"Disappearing" a century of bamboo-born goat milk fruit ( photo courtesy of the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences ) Chinese Academy of Sciences
The plant status of the newly discovered population of Dahuashi butterfly ( Photo courtesy of the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences )
( Photo courtesy of Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences ) Chinese Academy of Sciences
A group photo of the collection team in the Tiankeng ( Photo courtesy of the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences )
( Photo courtesy of Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences ) Chinese Academy of Sciences
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