Abstract: Vines-climbing plants are plants that cannot remain free-standing to any appreciable height.With thery are specially adaptive capacity, they become prominent components in tropical and subtropical forests, but often neglected as a group of plants. At present, some knowledge of vine ecology mainly comes from stusies on tropical vines. Subtropical vines are abundant and diverse, but vine ecology is nearly blank in China. The progresses and problems of vine adaptive ecology on plasticity, heteroblastic development, selective to host, breeding strategy and so on about vines were discussed in this paper. More attention must be paid to the adaptive ecology of vine weeds.

Key words: shading, summer maize, dry matter accumulation, nutrient absorption, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium.