Research Progress

• Maternal Dietary Serine Improves Body Weight of Offspring Piglets

  Researchers in the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture (ISA) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated the effects of different levels of maternal dietary serine from late pregnancy to lactation on sow reproductive performance and offspring performance, and on the metabolome of milk and the serum of sows and their offspring.

  Oct 13, 2020
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  Researchers Reveal Water Quality Trends in Dongting Lake from 1991-2018

  Based on the Mann–Kendall (M–K) test and self-organizing map (SOM), a team of researchers from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture(ISA), Chinese Academy of Sciences characterized and evaluated water quality trends in Dongting Lake, China, from 1991 to 2018, before and after the inauguration of the Three Gorges Dam (TGD).

  Oct 12, 2020
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  Composited Organic Mobilizing Agents Enhance Cd Accumulation in Sorghum

  To further enhance the efficiency, phytoremediation combined with heavy metal-mobilizing agents has been advocated and attracted research interests in recent years. A pot experiment was conducted with two composited organic agents (oxalic acid or citric acid + dissolved organic fertilizer (OA+DOF and CA+DOF)) and four application periods (seeding, jointing, flag leaf and heading stages) of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.), the team of researchers from Institute of Subtropical Agriculture(ISA), Chinese Academy of Sciences to investigate the enhancement effect of composited organic agents on Cd accumulation in shoots at the different growth stages of sorghum.

  Sep 16, 2020
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  Taurine Protects Piglets Against Oxidative Stress Damage

  A scientific research team (Research Center of Livestock Ecology and Healthy Production) led by academician Yulong Yin from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture (ISA) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences using diquat-challenged oxidative stress piglet model and additional taurine supplement in the diet to study the potential protective mechanisms of taurine in 35 days weaned piglets and got important findings.

  Sep 12, 2020
• Scientists Find Direct Evidence of Thickening Organic Film at Soil-water Micro-interfaces

  organic matter; soil-water interface; SoilChip; thickening organic film; biogeochemical gate; organic matter stabilization; carbon sequestration.

  Aug 28, 2020
• Karstic Topography－a Crucial Role in Modeling Karstic Hydrological Process

  Based on a semi-distributed hydrological model (named VarKarst), a team of researchers from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISA) built an improved optimization scheme for representing karstic hydrological processes in hillslopes and depressions.

  Aug 28, 2020
• Maternal Uridine Supplementation Affects Fatty Acids and Amino Acids Constituents of Piglets

  Researchers from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture (ISA) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that maternal supplementation with nucleotides in the form of UR decreased the birth mortality by using a sow-piglet model.

  Aug 20, 2020
• N-carbamylglycinate in Late-gestation Improves Reproductive Performance in Sows

  Recently, Dr. Wan Dan et al from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture (ISA), the Chinese Academy of Sciences had studied its effects on reproductive performance of sows in the late gestation, and had found its novel nutritional roles in amino acid metabolism and improve the reproductive performance in sows in this period.

  Jul 01, 2020
• Rumen-protected Glucose may Beneficial for Uterine Involution of Early Postpartum Dairy Cows

  Recently, researchers from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture(ISA), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Hunan Agricultural University fed the dairy cows with 0 or 200 g rumen-protected glucose twice every day from -7 ± 2 to 14 d to illustrated the effect of RPG on the uterine involution during the early post-natal period.

  May 11, 2020
• How Do Herbivorous Geese Respond to Food Resource Changes Caused by Varied Water Regime?

  Researchers in the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture (ISA), Chinese Academy of Sciences combined remote sensing, field survey, laboratory testing, and control experiment to measure the variations in both food quantity and quality as cues explaining the responses of the two herbivorous goose species (Lesser white-fronted goose Anser erythropus and Bean goose Anser fabalis) in terms of habitat selection and diet composition in two successive wintering periods, 2016/2017 and 2017/2018.

  May 07, 2020