Humans are both familiar and unfamiliar with plants on Earth - over 99% of terrestrial plants lack high-quality reference genomes. As a result, the international scientific program Plant Planet, led by Chinese scientists, was officially launched on the 11th. This project, jointly initiated by the Shenzhen Institute of Agricultural Genomics, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (Lingnan Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Guangdong Provincial Laboratory Shenzhen Branch) and 49 domestic and foreign institutions including the Chinese Society of Botany and Peking University, aims to decode the genetic code of major terrestrial plant lineages and work together to draw a complete "tree of plant life" to jointly address global challenges such as food security, biodiversity conservation, new drug discovery, and sustainable development. The participating institutions come from 15 countries and regions. This reminds us of the Human Genome Project launched in 1990, which took over 10 years to achieve results and led to rapid development in human genetics. Nowadays, our Plant Planet project also has a similar vision. ”Wang Li, one of the main leaders of the Plant Planet project and a researcher at the Shenzhen Institute of Agricultural Genomics, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said. Wang Li introduced that in the billions of years of evolution, plants on Earth have evolved into diverse forms. However, due to the scattered and missing genomic data, many key evolutionary relationships are still uncertain, which seriously limits human understanding and application development of plant diversity, adaptability, and functional potential. This project aims to fundamentally clarify the phylogenetic relationships and differentiation time among all major plant groups by sampling plant orders and families lacking reference genomes, in order to draw a complete plant "tree of life". How to handle the massive amount of key genomic data of land plants, which contain approximately 450000 species? Introducing artificial intelligence algorithms and models to enable AI to learn and decipher the 'common language' of plants. ”Wang Li introduced that the Genomic Language Basic Model will learn to recognize conserved "grammar" rules, organizational logic of regulatory elements, and coding patterns of functional modules in DNA sequences by analyzing tens of thousands of different plant genomes. Only by deciphering the 'common language' of plants can we understand the fundamental laws of life that have governed their evolution over 470 million years. Meanwhile, these genomic data can also help endangered plants. ”Wang Li said that traditional conservation measures are often limited by the scarcity of phenotype data and the difficulty of collection. After the implementation of this plan, species with fragile genetic foundations and endangered species can be identified more efficiently than traditional field monitoring, thus accurately assessing the endangered status of plants and providing theoretical basis for biodiversity assessment and the formulation of robust conservation decisions. In addition, by fully tapping into the genes of disease resistance, drought resistance, and salt tolerance in plants, humans can cultivate more climate resilient "future crops" to ensure food security. It is reported that strategically, the Plant Planet program will also enhance the ecological capacity for global biodiversity conservation and carbon neutrality, and build a new pattern of international cooperation in the field of plant science for global scientific propositions. (New Society)