Editorials

1. Honoring a legend: Celebrating the life and legacy of Professor Heng Li
2. The life of Xuan Zhou, founding father of the Gastrodia elata cultivation and industry in China

Review

1. Siwalik plant megafossil diversity in the Eastern Himalayas: A review
2. Global patterns of taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of flowering plants: Biodiversity hotspots and coldspots
3. Distribution and conservation of near threatened plants in China
4. Insights into cryptic speciation of quillworts in China
5. Patterns of floristic inventory and plant collections in Myanmar
6. Leaf hydraulics coordinated with leaf economics and leaf size in mangrove species along a salinity gradient
7. Floral trait variation across individual plants within a population enhances defense capability to nectar robbing
8. Metabolic and transcriptomic analyses elucidate a novel insight into the network for biosynthesis of carbohydrate and secondary metabolites in the stems of a medicinal orchid Dendrobium nobile
9. GhWRKY33 negatively regulates jasmonate-mediated plant defense to Verticillium dahliae

Short communications

1. U.PhyloMaker: An R package that can generate large phylogenetic trees for plants and animals
2. Does regional species diversity resist biotic invasions?

Report

1. A method for quantifying relative competitive advantage and the combined effect of co-invasion for two invasive plants