Project description:The complete plastid genome of Aletris megalantha (Nartheciaceae), an endemic species from Yunnan Province of China
| PRJNA680851 | ENA
Project description:Characterization of the complete plastid genome of Scutellaria microviolacea (Lamiaceae), a species endemic to Yunnan Province of China
Project description:Pinus bungeana Raw sequence reads
| PRJNA336101 | ENA
Project description:Comparative transcriptome analysis of male and female cones and development of microsatellite markers in Pinus bungeana, an endangered conifer endemic to China
Project description:Reforestation is effective in restoring ecosystem functions and enhancing ecosystem services of degraded land. The three most commonly employed reforestation methods of natural reforestation, artificial reforestation with native Masson pine (Pinus massoniana Lamb.), and introduced slash pine (Pinus elliottii Engelm.) plantations were equally successful in biomass yield in southern China. However, it is not known if soil ecosystem functions, such as nitrogen (N) cycling, are also successfully restored. Here, we employed a functional microarray to illustrate soil N cycling. The composition and interactions of N-cycling genes in soils varied significantly with reforestation method. Natural reforestation had more superior organization of N-cycling genes, and higher functional potential (abundance of ammonification, denitrification, assimilatory, and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium genes) in soils, providing molecular insight into the effects of reforestation.