Jianli Zhao
Editors, Plant Diversity
Yunnan University, China
Area of expertise: Evolutionary ecology, biogeography, population genetics, etc.
Yunnan University, China
Area of expertise: Evolutionary ecology, biogeography, population genetics, etc.
Title: Professor
Email: jianli.zhao@ynu.edu.cn
Selected publications:
Jian-Li Zhao*#, Yang Dong#, Ao-Dan Huang#, Sheng-Chang Duan#, Xiao-Chang Peng#, Hong Liao, Jiang-Hua Chen, Yin-Ling Luo, Qin-Ying Lan, Ya-Li Wang, Wen-Jing Wang, Xin-Meng Zhu, Pei-Wen Luo, Xue Xia, Bo Li, W. John Kress, Jia-Jia Han*, Spencer C. H. Barrett*, Wei Chen*, Qing-Jun Li. 2025. Ginger genome enables identification of SMPED1 causing sex-phase synchrony and outcrossing in a flowering plant. Nature Plants, 11: 2254–2267. (Cover story)
Hong-Fan Chen, Ryan Andrew Folk, Ya-Li Wang, Wen-Jing Wang, Guo-Jun Shao, Mei-Yuan Huang, Xiang-Qin Yu, Li Li, Jian-Li Zhao*. 2025. Extensive introgression failed to erode species boundaries among multiple sympatric closely related species of Roscoea. Molecular Ecology, 34: e70083.
Qing-Song Xiao, Tomáš Fér, Wen Guo, Hong-Fan Chen, Li Li, Jian-Li Zhao*. 2025. Small genome size ensures adaptive flexibility for an alpine ginger. Genome Biology and Evolution, 8: evaf151.
Jian-Li Zhao#, Xiang-Qin Yu#, W. John Kress, Ya-Li Wang, Yong-Mei Xia, Qing-Jun Li*. 2022. Historical biogeography of the gingers and its implications for shifts in tropical rain forest habitats. Journal of Biogeography, 49:1339–1351. (Cover story)
Xue Chu, Paul F. Gugger, Li Li, Jian-Li Zhao*, Qing-Jun Li. 2021. Responses of an endemic species (Roscoea humeana) in the Hengduan Mountains to climate change. Diversity and Distributions, 27: 2231–224.
Jian-Li Zhao, Babu Ram Paudel, Xiang-Qin Yu, Jie Zhang, Qing-Jun Li*. 2021. Speciation along the elevation gradient: Divergence of Roscoea species within the south slope of the Himalayas. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 164: 107292.
De-Bao Li, Xiao-Kun Ou, Jian-Li Zhao*, Qing-Jun Li. 2020. An ecological barrier between the Himalayas and the Hengduan Mountains maintains the disjunct distribution of Roscoea. Journal of Biogeography, 47: 326–341.
Jian-Li Zhao, Silke Werth, Makihiko Ikegami, Paul F. Gugger, Victoria L. Sork*. 2019. Historical interactions are predicted to be disrupted under future climate change: The case of lace lichen and valley oak. Journal of Biogeography, 46: 19–29. (Cover story)
Jian-Li Zhao, Jinshun Zhong, Yong-Li Fan, Yong-Mei Xia, and Qing-Jun Li*. 2017. A preliminary species-level phylogeny of the alpine ginger Roscoea: implications to speciation. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 55: 215–224. (Cover story)
Jian-Li Zhao, Paul F. Gugger, Yong-Mei Xia, Qing-Jun Li*. 2016. Ecological divergence of two closely related Roscoea species associated with late Quaternary climate change. Journal of Biogeography, 43: 1990–2001.
Jian-Li Zhao#, Yong-Mei Xia#, Charles H. Cannon, W. John Kress, Qing-Jun Li*. 2016. Evolutionary diversification of alpine ginger reflects the early uplift of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau and rapid extrusion of Indochina. Gondwana Research, 32: 232–241.