Due to internal resource restriction , plants have evolved an elaborate regulatory mechanism to modulate the tradeoff between growth and defense for survival under external stress .If plants reallocate resource to enhance resistance without restriction , growth and development would be arrested , even cause death .This brings us a question : how plants modulate the balance between meeting the necessary growth and achieving maximum resistance ? The underlying mechanism remains unclear .

Prof . Zeng ’ s Team at South China Botanical Garden has made significant impact on the introduction , breeding , propagation , commercial production , conservation and molecular function in recent years .In particular , the Paphiopedilum breeding has been at the advanced level in the world . 15 species have been developed and approved by variety registration in Guangdong Province . 88 species been registered in Royal Horticultural Society ( RHS ) ." Paphiopedilum New Variety Research and De...

Wrote Research Highlights for Nature Geoscience and Nature Reports Climate Change . Helped train the Chief Editor of Nature Climate Change and Associate Editors at Nature Climate Change and Nature Geoscience to handle manuscripts .Subjects included genetics , biochemistry , cell and molecular biology , developmental biology , microbiology , plant biology , animal physiology and ecology .

Over the last years , I have developed quantitative approaches based on live-cell microscopy and radiography , to measure both , the diffusive transport of carbohydrates through cell wall channels and active trans-membrane transport .In current projects , I am applying these methods in combination with theoretical modeling , metabolite analysis and the various techniques of molecular biology to investigate carbohydrate transport regulation at the cellular and molecular level .

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