Yunfei Deng
Associate Editors in Chief, Plant Diversity
South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy
South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Area of expertise: Plant taxonomy
Title: Professor
Email: yfdeng@scbg.ac.cn
Selected publications:
Villanueva-Espinoza, R., Deng, Y.F., Scotland, R. & Wood, J.R.I. 2025. Preliminary notes on Justicia (Acanthaceae) in Peru. PhytoKeys 258: 1--124.
Deng, Y. F. 2020. Acanthaceae. In: Hong, D. Y., Flora of Pan-Himalaya 46. Beijing & Cambridge: Science Press & Cambridge Press, pp. 39-443
Deng, Y. F. 2020. Bignoniaceae. In: Hong, D. Y., Flora of Pan-Himalaya 46. Beijing & Cambridge: Science Press & Cambridge Press, pp. 444-511
Deng Y F. 2019. Transfer the Philippine species of Hemigraphis Nees to Strobilanthes Blume (Acanthaceae). Phytotaxa 404:203-208.
Deng Y F, Gao C M, Xia N H & Peng H. 2016. Wuacanthus (Acanthaceae), a new Chinese endemic genus segregated from Justicia (Acanthaceae). Plant Diversity 38: 312-321.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2016.11.010
Liao, S., Zhang, Z., Yang, C.X, Gardner, E.M., Peng, Y.Q., Xiong, Y.M., Dai, S.P.* & Deng, Y.F. * 2025. A chromosome-level genome assembly of Ficus benjamina, a fig tree with great ecological and ornamental value. Scientific Data 12:824. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05155-w
Do, V.H., Nguyen, T.T., Bui, H.Q., Duong, T.H., Choudhary, R.T. & Deng, Y.F. 2025. Notes on the genus Thunbergia in Vietnam. Phytotaxa 697 (3): 255–264. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.697.3.4
Gao, C.M., Wang, S., Huang, Y.S. & Deng, Y.F.* 2025. Assembly and comparative analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of Echinacanthus longipes (Acanthaceae), endemic to the Sino-Vietnamese karst flora. BMC Genomics 26: 251
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-025-11448-6
Huang, Y.S., Zuo, C.Y., Liu, Y. & Deng, Y.F. 2024. Pittosporum napoense (Pittosporaceae), a new species from limestone areas of Guangxi, China. Phytotaxa 677(1): 102–108.
https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.677.1.7
Li, L.Q. & Deng, Y.F.* 2024. Chromosome numbers of six species of Championella group in Strobilanthes (Acanthaceae) from China. Cytologia 89(3): 257–260.
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.89.257
Zhao, J.X.#, Wang, S.#, Wen, J.#, Zhou, S.Z., Jiang, X.D., Zhong, M.C., Liu, J., Dong, X., Deng, Y.F.*, Hu, J.Y.* & Li, D.Z.* 2024. Evolution of the FLOWERING LOCUS T-like genes in angiosperms: a core-Lamiales-specific diversification. Journal of Experimental Botany, 75(13): 3946–3958.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erae176.
Geng, L.Y., Jiang, T.Y., Chen, X.*, Li, Q., Ma, J.H., Hou, W.X., Tang, C.Q., Wang, Q. & Deng, Y.F. 2024. Plastome structure, phylogeny and evolution of plastid genes in Reevesia (Helicteroideae, Malvaceae). Journal of Plant Research 137:589–604.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10265-024-01547-y
Soumya, P., Deng, Y.F., Dash, S.S. & Sunojkumar, P. 2023. A taxonomic revision of the genus Justicia (Acanthaceae) in Peninsular India. Rheedea 33(4): 270--331.
https://dx.doi.org/10.22244/rheedea.2023.33.04.04.
Zhao, J.X.#, Wang, S. #, Liu, J. Z.#, Jiang, X. D., Wen, J., Suo, Z.Q., Liu, J., Zhong, M.C., Wang, Q., Gu, Z.R. Liu, C.N., Deng, Y.F.*, Hu, J. Y.*& Li, D.Z.* 2023. A comparative full-length transcriptomic resource provides insight into the perennial monocarpic mass flowering. The Plant Journal 116: 1842–1855.
http://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.16452
Niu, Z.Y., Lin, Z.L., Tong, Y., Chen, X. & Deng, Y.F.* 2023. Complete plastid genome structure of 13 Asian Justicia (Acanthaceae) species: comparative genomics and phylogenetic analyses. BMC Plant Biology 23: 564.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-023-04532-0.