Achievements
Since its establishment, the Garden has achieved many academic accomplishments, including inventories of the local flora, rare and endangered plant conservation strategies, cultivation of new hybrids and varieties, publication of taxonomic monographs and other peer-reviewed papers, patents, software, and has received many awards. Notably, SZBG has become increasingly influential and notable after the XIX International Botanical Congress held in Shenzhen in 2017.
The SZBG has conducted basic research in many important plant groups such as cycads, magnolias, bryophytes, ferns, and gesneriads and has made fruitful achievements. In the past five years, the Garden has undertaken more than 160 scientific research projects (including more than 20 international, national, provincial and ministerial projects), with research funds exceeding RMB 15 million. We have published 39 books, 11 industry standards, and some 160 research articles (including the world’s top academic periodicals: Nature 2 articles, Nature Plants 2 articles, Nature Communications 2 articles). We have won 12 provincial and municipal science and technology awards.
- The American Bryological and Lichenological Society awarded the collaborators of Anthoceros ongustus the Sullivan Award.
- Important progress has been made in the reconstruction of the moss tree of life
Supported by the State Forestry Administration, the project “Reintroduction of
Cycas debaoensis” was selected as the model demonstration for rare plant reintroduction. The Garden collaborated with other institutions on the reintroduction of Magnolia sinostellata, another Chinese endemic and endangered species, in March 2017. The ambitious catalogue of plants of the region,
Flora of Shenzhen, began in 2004 and is completed in June 2017. This work comprises 4 volumes and includes 2,732 species of native and naturalized vascular plants that are systematically documented. An additional volume dealing with bryophytes only,
Bryophyte Flora of Shenzhen, will be published in 2021.
