Unlocking bamboo's fast growth: Exploring the vital role of non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs).

Bamboo is known for its fast growth, and non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) play a pivotal role in bamboo's fast growth. Despite extensive research on bamboo's growth, the role of NSCs, especially the underlying molecular regulatory mechanisms, in bamboo's fast growth remains largely unexplored. By studying growth patterns in various bamboo species, it was found that NSCs are transferred from mature bamboo to young shoots, facilitating their fast growth.

 (Poaceae, Bambusoideae), a new combination supported by morphological and molecular evidence.

Morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analyses clearly revealed that should be a member of the genus , rather than , and is a distinct species close to and . Morphologically, it differs from all the other known species by internodes initially with white pubescent, culm leaf auricles absent and triangularly subulate sheath blades, characteristics that are unusual in this genus. And this morphological distinction warrants recognition of as a new combination of .

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of (Bambusoideae: Arundinarieae): an ornamental bamboo species endemic to China.

We, at first, fully characterized the complete chloroplast genome of the woody bamboo using genome skimming and focused on comparative analyses among and . This newly sequenced chloroplast genome (GenBank NO. MN917206) is a typical circular structure with 139,711 bp in length and comprises of an 83,295 bp large single-copy (LSC) region, a 12,824 bp small single-copy (SSC) region, and a pair of 21,796 bp inverted repeats (IRs).