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August 2000 - present
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Beijing, China
August 2000 - present
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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High mountains harbor a considerable proportion of biodiversity, but we know little about how diverse plants adapt to the harsh environment. Here we finished a high-quality genome assembly for Dasiphora fruticosa, an ecologically important plant distributed in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and lowland of the Northern Hemisphere, and resequenced 592 n...
The genus Rhododendron exhibits an immense diversity of flower colors and represents one of the largest groups of woody plants, which is of great importance for ornamental plant research. This review summarizes recent progress in deciphering the genetic basis for flower coloration in Rhododendron. We describe advances in phylogenetic reconstruction...
Reconstructing a robust species phylogeny and disentangling the evolutionary and biogeographic history of the gymnosperm genus Ephedra, which has a large genome and rich polyploids, remain a big challenge. Here we reconstructed a transcriptome‐based phylogeny of 19 diploid Ephedra species, and explored evolutionary reticulations in this genus repre...
Few incidents of ancient allopolyploidization (polyploidization by hybridization or merging diverged genomes) were previously revealed, although there is significant evidence for the accumulation of whole genome duplications (WGD) in plants. Here, we focused on Ericales, one of the largest and most diverse angiosperm orders with significant ornamen...
The genus Rhododendron (Ericaceae), with more than 1000 species highly diverse in flower color, is providing distinct ornamental values and a model system for flower color studies. Here, we investigated the divergence between two parental species with different flower color widely used for azalea breeding. Gapless genome assembly was generated for...
Azaleas (Ericaceae) comprise one of the most diverse ornamental plants, renowned for theircultural and economic importance. We present a chromosome-scale genome assembly forRhododendron simsii, the primary ancestor of azalea cultivars. Genome analyses unveil theremnants of an ancient whole-genome duplication preceding the radiation of most Ericacea...
Azaleas (Ericaceae) comprise one of the most diverse ornamental plants, renowned for their cultural and economic importance. We present a chromosome-scale genome assembly for Rhododendron simsii, the primary ancestor of azalea cultivars. Genome analyses unveil the remnants of an ancient whole-genome duplication preceding the radiation of most Erica...
Meconopsis (Papaveraceae) is an interesting alpine herb, mainly distributed in the mountainous area of southwest China and high altitude zone in Tibetan-Himalaya. Different Meconopsis species showed a flower color alteration in different anthesis stages, Meconopsis ‘Lingholm’ is one of the localized species whose petal color changes from purple to...
Accurate species delimitation is crucial to the fields of systematics, biogeography, and conservation biology; however, inferring phylogenetic relationships among closely related, recently diverged species has always been difficult. In the present study, we conducted a range-wide field investigation of five Pedicularis species of P. sect. Cyathopho...
The taxonomy and phylogeny of Asian Meconopsis (Himalayan blue poppy) remain largely unresolved. We used the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) and the chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) trnL-F region for phylogenetic reconstruction of Meconopsis and its close relatives Papaver, Roemeria, and Stylomecon. We identified fi...
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) harbors the highest species diversity of alpine plants in the world, with a spectacular diversity of flower colors. Among these, the genus Meconopsis comprises more than 50 species, for which flower color is a key diagnostic character. However, the mechanisms underlying this flower color variation have rarely been in...
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) has become one of the hotspots for phylogeographical studies due to its high species diversity. However, most previous studies have focused on the effects of the Quaternary glaciations on phylogeographical structures and the locations of glacial refugia, and little is known about the effects of the aridization of i...
The complex tectonic events and climatic oscillations in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), the largest and highest plateau in the world, are thought to have had great effects on the evolutionary history of the native plants. Of great interest is to investigate plant population genetic divergence in the QTP and its correlation with the geologic and...
The classification and phylogeny of Eurasian (EA) Aster (Asterinae, Astereae, Asteraceae) remain poorly resolved. Some taxonomists adopt a broad definition of EA Aster, whereas others favour a narrow generic concept. The present study aims to delimit EA Aster sensu stricto (s.s.), elucidate the phylogenetic relationships of EA Aster s.s. and segreg...
Aster ageratoides var. pendulus, a recently described taxon, is endemic to Mt Hupingshan of north-western Hunan, China. Field observations and collections were made from the only known population. Root-tip squashes were used to determine the chromosome numbers of 96 plants and 61 seedlings from the achenes of eight sample plants. The results show t...
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is thought to be more strongly affected by the Quaternary glaciations than most other regions of the same latitude. It would be of great interest to investigate the population genetic structure of organisms distributed on the platform and its correlation with the Quaternary climatic oscillations. Here we used the c...
The cpDNA trnT-trnF region, a molecular marker widely used in the phylogenetic reconstruction at lower taxonomic levels, is relatively conserved
in size and structure. In this region single length variation over 100 bp is much less common than small deletion for congeneric
species of angiosperms. Here we examined evolutionary patterns of the trnT-t...
Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) were used in the phylogenetic reconstruction of Pedicularis, a genus with strong adaptive radiation. Forty-two species representing 12 greges of the genus were all, except P. resupinata, sampled from the Hengduan Mountain region, China. A high level of ITS sequence...
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