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Professor YI Tingshuang |
YI Tingshuang, Professor of botany. Major research interests include 1) biogeography of disjunct distribution of plant taxa in Northern Hemisphere, with emphasis on Pistacia, Rhus, Cotinus of Anacardiaceae; Hamamelis of Hamamelidaceae; Aralia and Panax of Araliaceae; Rosa and Malus of Rosaceae; 2) reconstruct tree of life of Pentapetalae and Rosales; 3) domestication of Chinese crops and c...
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| Major Research Achievements |
1 Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution of Plant Taxa in Northern Hemisphere Biogeography of Angiosperm in the Northern Hemisphere is characterized by disjunct distribution of closely related species. A lot of questions have not fully resolved:1) Why does eastern Asia harbor higher species diversity than that of North America? Is it due to a higher speciation rate or low extinct rate? 2) Ho...
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| Publications |
1. China Plant BOL Group. 2011. Comparative analysis of a large dataset indicates that ITS should be incorporated into the core barcode for seed plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (accepted) 2. Li X, Song K, Yang J, Yi T-S*(corresponding author). 2011. Isolation and characterization of 11 new microsatellite loci in Erigeron breviscapus (Asteraceae), an importan...
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