Gong Xun
Professor
Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology
Kunming Institute of Botany
China
Biography
GONG Xun, Professor of botany. Major research interests include 1) conservation genetics of rare and endangered plants in China, such as Cycad species native to Yunnan, Paeonia delavayi, Nouelia insignis, Psammosilene tunicoides, Citrus hongheensis and so on; 2) phylogenetics or speciation of the plants endemic to some regions in China, with emphasis on Chinese Apiaceae, Ligularia, Dobinea, Lamiophlomis and their allied genera; 3) the breeding and domestication of the varieties of Magnoliaceae plants.
Research Interest
Phylogenetics, the breeding and domestication of the varieties of Magnoliaceae plants, conservation genetics of rare and endangered plants
Publications
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Nagano H, Matsushima M, Yamada H, Hanai R, Gong X*, Kuroda C，2010. Two new furanoeremophilane sesquiterpenoids from Ligularia oligonema. Natural product communications, 5(1):1-4.
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Hao Wu, LiangqingZeng, Xun Gong*, 2010. Chromosome number of Trailliae doxagracilis (Rubiaceae)endemic to Jinsha Rivervalley. Acta Botanica Yunnanica, 32: 407-408.
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Yang Yang, Yuezhi Pan, Xun Gong*, Moutian Fan, 2010. Genetic variation in the endangered Rutaceae species Citrus hongheensis based on ISSR fingerprinting. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 57:1239–1248.
