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
Jianghua Chen
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant development and movement, functional genomics
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
Shibao Zhang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant physiological ecology, orchid biology
Libing Zhang
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO, USA
Area of expertise: Phylogeny, taxonomy, and nomenclature of vascular plants
Editors
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
Zhiduan Chen
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
Area of expertise: Systematic botany, phylogenetic biodiversity
Gao Chen
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Conservation biology, pollination ecology, seed dispersal, animal-plant interactions
Min Deng
Yunnan University, Kunming, China
Area of expertise:Plant taxonomy, plant systematics, comparative anatomy, population genetics
Tao Deng
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Macroecology, Biogeography, Phylogeny
Jianming Deng
State Key Laboratory of Grassland and Agro-Ecosystems, School of Life Science, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China
Area of expertise: Plant ecology, microbial ecology and theoretical ecology
Yuanwen Duan
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Mating system evolution, reproductive strategies and pollination ecology in plants. Special on flower evolution along with the associated ecological consequences and the underlying mechanisms, involving sexual system change, flower color change and flower shape change
Zexin Fan
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Climate change, functional traits, dendrochronology, global change ecology
Du Fang
School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China
Area of expertise: Molecular Ecology
Lianming Gao
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Phylogeny and phylogenomics, speciation and adaptive evolution, biogeography, DNA barcoding
Bernard Goffinet
University of Connecticut, CT, USA
Area of expertise: Bryophyte and lichen evolution (including systematics, taxonomy, organellar genomes, phylogenomics)
Xun Gong
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Genetic diversity, natural hybridization and hybrid speciation
Setoguchi Hiroaki
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Area of expertise: Conservation genetics, phylogeny, phylogeography, taxonomy
Yongjiang Huang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Palaeobotany
Jiangguo Huang
South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Area of expertise: Forest ecology, Tree Physiology, Climate Change, dendrochronology
Jinling Huang
East Carolina University, Greenville, USA
Area of expertise: Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes, particularly photosynthetic eukaryotes, evolutionary genomics, and plant evolution
Yu Jia
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Area of expertise: Taxonomy and systematics of Bryophytes
Yuannian Jiao
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
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 root ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, plant and mycorrhizal interactions
Simcha Lev-Yadun
University of Haifa - Oranim, Israel
Shaopeng Li
East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Area of expertise: Community ecology, plant invasion, functional ecology, island biogeography
Rong Li
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy and biogeography, plant systematics and evolution
Zhong-Hu Li
College of Life Sciences, Northwest University
Area of expertise: Plant population genomics, speciation and molecular evolution
Weiqi Li
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant stress physiology, molecular physiology, functional genomics, plant lipidomics
Dezhu Li
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 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
Gang Liang
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Homeostasis of metal nutrients; molecular mechanisms of Fe, Cu, and Zn uptake; transcription regulation of genes responsive to mineral deficiency; nutrient deficiency sense and signaling transduction
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
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
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
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: Ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, community ecology
Jinshuang Ma
Beijing Botanical Garden, Beijing, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy, invasive and naturalized plants of China, history and literatures of plant taxonomy in China, taxa interested Aristolochia and Isotrema of Aristolochiaceae, Euphorbia of Euphorbiaceae, Euonymus of Celatraceae, and Metasequoia
Yongpeng Ma
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Conservation genomics, Plant species with extremely small populations, Hybridization and introgressions
Kangshan Mao
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Area of expertise: Historical biogeography, phyogenetics (phylogenomics), phylogeography, population genetics (genomics), conservation genetics (genomics), landscape genetics (genomics), evolutionary biology
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: Phylogeny, biogeography, molecular systematics
Yang Niu
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Pollination ecology, plant colour evolution, alpine botany
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
Yingxiong Qiu
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Area of expertise: Molecular ecology, phylogeography, phylogenetics, landscape genomics
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: Pollination Ecology, Plant Reproductive Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology, Plant-Pollinator Interaction; Orchids
Bo SONG
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Victoria Sosa
Instituto de Ecologia AC Xalapa , Mexico City, Mexico
Area of expertise: Taxonomy, molecular systematics, historical biogeography, electronic flora of Mexico
Robert Spicer
Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Area of expertise: Palaeobotany, palaeoclimatology, monsoons, Tibet, polar
Tao Su
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Paleobotany, paleoclimatology, paleoecology, biodiversity
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
Hang Sun
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy, flora, biogeography and evolutionary biology
Komiljon Tojibaev
Tashkent Botanical Garden, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Area of expertise: Plant diversity (Central Asia), phytogeography, taxonomy of geophytes (Allium, Tulipa, Juno and ect.)
Jing Wang
Sichuan University, China
Area of expertise: Plant Evolutionary Genomics
Hengchang Wang
Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
Area of expertise: Molecular phylogeny and evolution, taxonomy, biogeography and plant genome
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
Ehud Weiss
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Area of expertise: Archaeology, Palaeoecology
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: Floristics and Plant taxonomy, Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
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: Gene transcription regulation; crop genetics; epigenetics; gene editing; Evo-devo
Zhuliang Yang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Fungal taxonomy, molecular phylogeny, biogeography and evolution
Jie Yang
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Community ecology, forest ecology
Xuefei Yang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Ethnobotany
Tingshuang Yi
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Plant Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Ticao Zhang
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Comparative and evolutionary genomics, Molecular ecology, Agronomic traits
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
Yunpeng Zhao
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Area of expertise: Molecular ecology, conservation genomics, gene bank and seed bank, phylogeography
Wei Zhou
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Population genetics, mating system, phylogeography
Zhekun Zhou
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
Area of expertise: Paleobotany, paleoecology, biogeography and plant taxonomy
Andan Zhu
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Honorary Editors-in-Chief
Xiaoya Chen
Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
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
Editorial Office
Plant Diversity Editorial office
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Editorial Office Manager
Dr. Nana Lin
Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China
