Abstract:

In 1952, when botany was still regarded as a “new science” in China, a quarterly journal named Acta Botanica Sinica (ABS) was established by the Botanical Society of China. Dr. Shih-Wei Loo received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (CIT) in 1945, and was appointed as the journal’s first Editor-in-Chief for his achievements in plant biology (Tang and Loo 1940; Loo and Wang 1943). Since then, the journal has continuously nourished the growth of many Chinese botanists, except for a 5-year hiatus during the arduous Cultural Revolution period between 1967 and 1972. By 1989, the journal began publishing monthly.