Research Advances on Plant Science in China in 2012

Plant science in China has been developing rapidly in 2012.Chinese scientists reported a lot of original research findings of high level in various aspects of plant biology, including the research into plant genome, the signaling pathway of plant innate immune resistance, the mechanism of DNA demethylation and DNA double-strand break repair in plants, and so on.This review aims to provide an overall picture of plant research in China and highlights some of the important findings in 2012.