Founded in 2002, Ruili Botanical Garden () and Nanmaohu Park is a

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

Ruili Ruili (; tdd, ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ᥛᥣᥝᥰ; shn, မိူင်းမၢဝ်း; th, เมืองมาว; my, ရွှေလီ) is a county-level city of Dehong Prefecture, in the west of Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. It ...

. Located 6 km from the city in

Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture The Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture is located in western Yunnan province, People's Republic of China, and is one of the eight autonomous prefectures of the province, bordering Baoshan to the east and Burma's Kachin State to the wes ...

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...

in the South-West of China near the Myanmar border. The park has more than 5,000 acres of well-preserved native vegetation, mainly monsoon evergreen broad-leaved forest, with more than 1,200 species of tropical and subtropical plants.

Research

Working with

China National GeneBank China National GeneBank or CNGB () is China's first national-level gene storage bank, approved and funded by the Chinese government. Based in the Dapeng Peninsula of Shenzhen, CNGB's mission is to support public welfare, life science research a ...

, BGI and the Forestry Bureau of Ruili, the Botanical Garden is carrying out the Digitalization of Ruili Botanic Garden project, committed to protecting endangered and Chinese endemic plants, by collection, long-term preservation and breeding of

germplasm Germplasm are living genetic resources such as seeds or tissues that are maintained for the purpose of animal and plant breeding, preservation, and other research uses. These resources may take the form of seed collections stored in seed banks, t ...

resources. Moreover, the project will carry out the world’s very first comprehensive digitalization and in-depth bioinformatics analysis of a botanical garden. Providing insight into the feasibility and technical requirements for “planetary scale” sequencing projects such as the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) and 10,000 Plant Genome (10KP) Projects. So far 689 species and 761 specimens have been sequenced with an average depth of 60X to produce 54 Tb of raw sequencing data, and analysis and further sampling is ongoing.

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