Yang Yongping
Professor
Department of Germplasm Bank of Wild Species
Kunming Institute of Botany
China
Biography
YANG Yongping, Professor of botany and Deputy Director to Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (KIB/CAS). Major research interests are to document traditional knowledge of plant use by applying ethnobotanical approach, and then some state-in-the-art technologies in phytochemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology, reproductive ecology and evolutionary biology, are employed in the study of useful plants, especially herbal medicine or ethno-medicine.
Research Interest
phytochemistry, pharmacology, molecular biology, reproductive ecology and evolutionary biology
Publications
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Meng Ying, Yang Yong-Ping and Caroline S. Weckerle. 2006. Conservation status of Maianthemum species in the Hengduan mountains: a case study analyzing the impact of new policies on wild collected plant species. Ethnobotany Research & Applications 4:167-173.
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Meng Ying, Hong-Yan Xie, Ze-Long Nie, Zi-Jian Gu and Yong-Ping Yang*. 2006. A karyomorphological study on four species of Meconopsis Vig. (Papaveraceae) from the Hengduan mountains, SW China. Caryologia 59: 1-6.
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Caroline S. Weckerle, Franz K. Huber, Yang Yongping and Sun Weibang. 2006. Plant knowledge of the Shuhi in the Hengduan mountains, Southwest China. Economic Botany 60: 3-23.
