Pests are the major enemy of agriculture and forestry production. It is reported that they cause staggering economic losses, reaching 250 billion dollars per year on a worldwide basis. They are also one of the primary reasons for significant yield losses in China. In order to control pests, farmers have to apply pesticides extensively, which not only elevate costs tremendously, but pose a crippling threat to mankind and the environment. Therefore, cultivating strains with strong resistant to pes...

Recently, the research team, led by Prof. ZHAO Yi from the College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, has developed a new kind of low-cost and low-power memory. It will improve the speed of data exchange to a considerable extent and reduce the cost of producing network chips, thereby laying a foundation for the Internet of Things (IoT) in theory. Moreover, data will be tagged, leaving the future IoT society with a vivid imagination.In computing, memory r...

2018 Inter-university Symposium on Asian Megacities (IUSAM) was held on Zijngang Campus on May 5-6. Under the theme of “Space Sharing in Virtual and Physical Worlds”, IUSAM discusses on topics concerning space sharing related to technology, economy, society, culture and arts.YANG Xiaoguang, vice dean of Zhejiang Urban and Rural Planning Design Institute, WEI Biao, professor and senior engineer of Hangzhou City Planning & Design Academy, and JIANG Haifeng, executive president of Planning an...

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A research team led by Professor QI Jianhua has published a research paper entitled “Identification of an Asexual Reproduction Inducer of Phytopathogenic and Toxigenic Fusarium” in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a top journal in chemistry. This paper was highly spoken of by two reviewers, which was rarely seen according to the editor. The research has laid an important foundation for the development of specific antibiotics and antimicrobials.The discovery of hormones (or pheromones) ...

The structure and diversity of the microorganism community plays a crucial role in agro-ecosystems. If the diversity of the microorganism community in soil is destroyed, nourishments in soil will be lost, the structure of soil will degenerate and the ecological function will decline, thereby severely affecting its productivity and health. It is one of the most common agricultural measures to apply nitrogen fertilizers, which will improve crop yield in the short term. However, Long-term elevated ...

The research team led by Prof. ZHANG Guoping with the Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang University, published an article entitled “Genomic adaptation to drought in wild barley is driven by edaphic natural selection at the Tabigha Evolution Slope” in the April 30 issue of the journal of PNAS. Its lead author and corresponding author are WANG Xiaolei (a Ph.D. student) and Prof. DAI Fei.Microsite evolution involving ecological divergences due to geological, edaphic, or climatic conditions req...

Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UNESCO unveiled a list of lead authors of the Sixth Assessment Report. A total of 707 authors from across the world, among whom 37 are from China, will participate in the finalization of the report. Prof. CAO Long with the School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, is greatly honored to be one of the lead authors.The IPCC was set up in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environ...

Finding clues from a small piece of data is no longer an arduous task; however, when facing real-world problems, there is often more than one source of data available. When the clues lie in front of you, how are you able to deduct the truth from them?Recently, Alibaba-Zhejiang University Joint Research Institute of Frontier Technologies (AZFT) has published their latest research, which is called RelationLine. RelationLine is a visual analysis system that is capable of in...

The zebra’s stripes, the snail’s spirals and the leaf’s convolution……It has been an intriguing enigma as to how these regular and repetitive patterns form in nature. As early as 1952, English scientist Alan Turing made a prediction that two chemical substances, activator and inhibitor, can, under certain conditions, react and diffuse with each other to generate spatiotemporal stationary structures. Through what is dubbed as a “reaction-diffusion” process, these two substances will spontan...