Atropurpuran is from a class of natural chemical compounds that is thought to relieve pain, particularly in folk medicine in the northern hemisphere.

The influence of light on specific photoreceptor cells within plants is responsible for every stage of a plant’s development, from seed to seedling to plant. Both the presence and absence of light influence the growth of plants while they are seedlings in different ways. Understanding how mutations in different photoreceptor cells can influence the growth of plants is critical to understanding changes in our environment.

Sesterterpenoids, a rare type of terpene that is produced from a variety of plants and insects, have been the source of much research around the world and play an important role in synthetic organic chemistry and drug discovery.

Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has started the new year with the research group of Department of Chemistry Professor Zhi Zewei published in two important academic journals.

On May 18, an academic paper co-written by SUSTech’s Department of Physics and Beihang University (previously known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) was published in the leading academic journal “Science.”