Editorial Board
Editor in Chief
Jianqiang Wu
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant resistance to insects, host-parasitic plant interactions, signaling
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jianqiang_Wu2
Executive Associate Editor in Chief
Jianwen Zhang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy and biogeography, plant systematics and evolution
Associate Editors in Chief
Richard Corlett
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna, China
Area of expertise: Impacts of climate change, biodiversity conservation, tropical East Asia, plant-animal interactions
Yunfei Deng
South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy
Zhiyao Tang
Peking University, Beijing, China
Area of expertise: Plant community ecology
Libing Zhang
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA
Area of expertise: Phylogeny, taxonomy, and nomenclature of vascular plants
Shibao Zhang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant physiology, Orchid biology, plant physiological ecology, horticulture
Editors
Weining Bai
Beijing Normal University, China
Area of expertise: speciation and adaptation, genome evolution, hybridization and gene introgression
Ian T. Baldwin
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany
Area of expertise: Plant-insect interactions
Igor Bartish
Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
Area of expertise: Biogeography, Hippophae, phyloecology, phylogenetics, phylogeography, molecular ecology, molecular systematics, Sapotaceae
Carol Baskin
University of Kentucky Lexington, KY, USA
Area of expertise: Plant ecology, seed dormancy and germination, plant life history
Gil Bohrer
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Area of expertise: Forest ecohydrology, forest meteorology, greenhouse gas fluxes from vegetation, aerial dispersal
David Boufford
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, MA, USA
Area of expertise: Floristics of temperate Eastern Asia and temperate North America; biodiversity
Jing Cai
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Area of expertise: Plant genomics, evolutionary genetics
Gao Chen
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Conservation biology, pollination ecology, seed dispersal, animal-plant interactions
Jianghua Chen
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant development and movement, functional genomics
Weile Chen
Zhejiang University, China
Area of expertise: Roots; mycorrhizal fungi; belowground ecology
Zhiduan Chen
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Area of expertise: Systematic botany, phylogenetic biodiversity
Jianming Deng
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Area of expertise: Plant ecology, microbial ecology and theoretical ecology
Min Deng
Yunnan University, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant phylogenetics and systematics, integrative taxonomy, plant anatomy, population genetics, and biogeography
Tao Deng
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Macroecology, Biogeography, Phylogeny
Wenna Ding
Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL; Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Mountain biodiversity, biogeography, diversification, paleoecology
Yang Dong
Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Plant Development, Organ Morphogenesis and Trait Evolution
Fang Du
Beijing Forestry University, China
Area of expertise: Population genetic/genomics; plant conservation; forest ecology
Yuanwen Duan
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: pollination ecology of alpine plants, forage germplasm and utilization
Zexin Fan
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Global Change Biology
Lianming Gao
Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China
Area of expertise: Plant phylogenetics and evolution, plant diversity and conservation, speciation and adaptive evolution
Bernard Goffinet
University of Connecticut, CT, USA
Area of expertise: Bryophyte and lichen evolution (including systematics, taxonomy, organellar genomes, phylogenomics)
Ziwen He
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Area of expertise: Evolutionary biology, molecular ecology, population genetics, genomics
Setoguchi Hiroaki
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Area of expertise: Conservation genetics, phylogeny, phylogeography, taxonomy
J. Aaron Hogan
USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR USA
Area of expertise: Plant Ecology, Plant Ecophysiology, Disturbance Ecology, Carbon Cycle, Plant-Soil Interactions, Plant Functional Traits, Ecological Statistics, Statistical Modeling, Open Science
Yanru Hu
Hunan University, China
Area of expertise: Plant Physiology, Plant Molecular Biology
Jianguo Huang
College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Area of expertise: Forest ecology, Tree-ring research, dendrochronology, plant phenology, wood anatomy, climate change, climate extremes
Jinling Huang
East Carolina University, Greenville, USA
Area of expertise: Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes, particularly photosynthetic eukaryotes, evolutionary genomics, and plant evolution
Yongjiang Huang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Cenozoic palaeobotany and palaeoenvironment, archaeobotany
Zihan Jiang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Mountain Biodiversity; Altitudinal Patterns; Complex Systems; Critical Zone
Yuannian Jiao
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Area of expertise: Evolutionary Genomics, Comparative Genomics, Polyploidy
Ming Kang
South China Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Phylogenomics and population genomics; genomics of speciation and adaptation
Joo-Hwan Kim
Gachon University, Gyeonggi, Korea
Area of expertise: Phylogenetics, evolutionary biology, evolution
Deliang Kong
Henan Agricultural University, Zhenzhou, China
Area of expertise: Plant functional traits, plant root-microbe interaction, global change ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
Simcha Lev-Yadun
University of Haifa - Oranim, Israel
Area of expertise: Organismic botany
Dezhu Li
Shandong Agricultural University, China
Area of expertise: Phylogenetics and biogeography of important taxa in East Asia; phylogenomics of grasses, angiosperms and other vascular plants; DNA barcoding, next-generation Flora (iFlora) of plants in China and biodiversity and germplasm preservation
Rong Li
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy and biogeography, plant systematics and evolution
Shaopeng Li
East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Area of expertise: Plant invasion, plant community ecology, trait-based ecology
Shufeng Li
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Vegetation and plant diversity modeling, palynology, paleoclimate, paleoecology
Zhong-Hu Li
Northwest University, China
Area of expertise: Plant population genomics, Evolutionary ecology
Gang Liang
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Nutrient signaling and transduction in plants
Luxiang Lin
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Community assembly, species coexistence, species interaction, forest dynamic, plant ecology, community ecology, forest ecology
Jianquan Liu
Lanzhou University and Sichuan University, Lanzhou and Chengdu, China
Area of expertise: Genomics, population genetics (genomics), conservation genetics (genomics), phyogenetics (phylogenomics), evolutionary biology, biogeography, phylogeography
Hui Liu
South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Area of expertise: Plant eco-physiology, plant functional traits, plant hydraulics, phylogenetic comparative modelling, biogeography, climatic niche
Jie Liu
Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Biogeography, population genetics, conservation biology
Jordi López-Pujol
Botanic Institute of Barcelona (IBB-CSIC-ICUB), Catalonia, Spain
Area of expertise: Biogeography, conservation, invasive alien species, genetic diversity, phylogeography
Xiaotao Lv
Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Plant community ecology, functional ecology, global change ecology, ecosystem ecology
Limin Lu
Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy, biodiversity, biogeography
Martin A. Lysák
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Area of expertise: Plant evolutionary genomics, comparative & functional cytogenetics
Pengfei Ma
Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Plant evolutionary genomics, phylogeny, crop wild relatives
Yongpeng Ma
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Conservation biology, Conservation genomics, Population genetics
Jianfeng Mao
Umeå University, Sweden
Area of expertise: Plant genomics, transposable elements, conifer, tree genetics and breeding
Kangshan Mao
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Area of expertise: Phylogenomics, historical biogeography, intercontinental disjunction, speciation, hybridization, adaptive introgression, conservation genomics
Lingfeng Mao
Nanjing Forestry University, China
Area of expertise: Biodiversity, macroecology, biogeography, forest ecology
Alexandra Muellner-Riehl
Institute of Biology，Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Area of expertise: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography, evolutionary biology, taxonomy and systematics, biodiversity, DNA barcoding
Zelong Nie
Jishou University, Jishou, China
Area of expertise: Phylogenetics, Biogeography, Evolution
Yang Niu
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant evolutionary ecology, plant-animal interaction, pollination, plant color evolution
Ayub Oduor
Technical University of Kenya, Kenya
Alexei Oskolski
University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Komarov Botanical Institute, Russia
Area of expertise: Comparative anatomy and evolutionary morphology of flowering plants
Hakan Ozkan
Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey
Area of expertise: Cereal and legume domestication, genetic diversity of wild relatives of cereals and legume, cereal and legume genetics, polyploidization and breeding of cereal and legume for abiotic and biotic stresses
Qin Qiao
Yunnan Agricultural University, China
Area of expertise: Horticultural plant genomics, population genetics, functional genomics
Yingxiong Qiu
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Phylogeography, Biogeography, Conservation Biology, Plant Systematics and Evolution
Peter Raven
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA
Area of expertise: Plant systematics and evolution; population biology, biogeography, reproductive biology, ethnobotany, and conservation biology
Zongxin Ren
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Orchid biology, pollination ecology, plant-pollinator interactions, conservation biology
Tao Shi
Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Genome evolution; gene regulatory network evolution; epigenomics; whole-genome duplication; genome karyotype evolution
Bo Song
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Trait-based ecology, pollination biology, macroecology
Victoria Sosa
Instituto de Ecologia AC Xalapa , Mexico City, Mexico
Area of expertise: Taxonomy, molecular systematics, historical biogeography, electronic flora of Mexico
Tao Su
Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, China
Area of expertise: Paleobotany, Plant Evolution, Paleoecology
Hang Sun
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant Diversity, Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Biogeography
Jian Sun
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Biogeography and global changes
Weibang Sun
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Conservation biology of the most threatened plant species with extremely small sopulations (PSESP); biology of plant introduction and domestication
Komiljon Tojibaev
Tashkent Botanical Garden, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Area of expertise: Plant diversity (Central Asia), phytogeography, taxonomy of geophytes (Allium, Tulipa, Juno and ect.)
Tao Wan
Wuhan Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Phylogenomics, genome evolution, plant responses to climate changes, plant diversity conservation
Gang Wang
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Plant-Animal interaction, rapid evolution and conservation, fig-wasp coevolution.
Hengchang Wang
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
Area of expertise: Molecular Systematics, Genome Biology
Hong Wang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant systematics and evolution, pollen morphology, floral biology, plant-pollinator interaction, pollination ecology
Jing Wang
Sichuan University, China
Area of expertise: Plant Evolutionary Genomics
Li Wang
Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen , Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Evolutionary genomics; population genomics; biosynthetic pathway
Ming Wang
Nanjing Agricultural University, China
Area of expertise: Natural product chemistry, metabolomics, and plant pathology
Qiang Wang
Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Taxonomy of Lamiaceae and Campanulaceae, plant diversity of Pan-Himalaya
Wei Wang
Institute of Botany, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Phylogeny, biogeography, morphology
Ehud Weiss
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Area of expertise: Archaeology, Palaeoecology
Zhiqiang Wu
Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Plant genome biology, Plant organelle genome, evolutionary biology
Jenny Xiang
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Area of expertise: Evolution, molecular ecology, phylogenetics and biogeography, DNA barcoding, speciation, hybridization, conservation genetics, taxonomy
Chunlei Xiang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy, phylogenomics, rapid radiation
Yaowu Xing
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Phylogeny, biogeography, paleobotany, biodiversity
Jianchu Xu
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Forest ecology, ecological restoration, agroforestry, species distribution and modelling, biological diversity conservation
Wenhao Yan
Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
Area of expertise: Wheat Genetics, Plant Development, epi-genetics, Gene Transcription Regulation
Jie Yang
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant Community Ecology, Trait-based Ecology, Plant Biodiversity
Fusheng Yang
Institute of Botany,CAS, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy, systematics and evolution
Xuefei Yang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Ethnobotany, species distribution modelling, natural resouces manangement
Zhuliang Yang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Fungal diversity, taxonomy and phylogeny
Tingshuang Yi
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant phylogeny, plant phylogenomics, plant diversification
Wenbin Yu
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Phylogeny, population genetics, conservation genetics, molecular evolution
Yan Yu
Sichuan University, China
Area of expertise: Plant phylogenetics and evolutionary biology
Jian Zhang
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Area of expertise: Biogeography, macroecology, biodiversity, climate change, elevational gradient
Lin Zhang
Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Plant ecology
Ticao Zhang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant evolutionary genomics, horticultural biology
Yongjiang Zhang
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS, China
Area of expertise: Plant physiology, Plant physiological ecology, plant water relations, plant hydraulics, climate change
Yunhai Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100093, China
Area of expertise: Ecosystem stability, biodiversity, carbon cycles, nitrogen cycles, plant biomass production
Jianli Zhao
Yunnan University, China
Area of expertise: Evolutionary ecology, biogeography, population genetics, etc.
Yunpeng Zhao
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Area of expertise: Molecular ecology, conservation genomics, gene bank and seed bank, phylogeography
Bojian Zhong
Nanjing Normal University, China
Area of expertise: Phylogenomics, molecular evolution, evolutionary genomics
Wei Zhou
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Population genetics, plant mating system, molecular evolution
Zhekun Zhou
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Paleobotany, paleoecology, plant community ecology, plant biodiversity
Andan Zhu
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Area of expertise: Genome Evolution, Polyploidy, Comparative genomics, Domestication
Honorary Editors-in-Chief
Xiaoya Chen
Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Area of expertise: roots; mycorrhizal fungi; belowground ecology
Xiaojiang Hao
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Deyuan Hong
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Hongwen Huang
South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Handong Sun
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China