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• Lingyun Chen, Bei Lu, Diego F. Morales-Briones, Michael L. Moody, Fan Liu, Guangwan Hu, Chien-Hsun Huang^*, Jinming Chen^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2022.Phylogenomic analyses of Alismatales shed light into adaptations to aquatic environments.Molecular Biology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac079
  
  Yadong Zhou, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang^*.Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya,East Africa. Phytotaxa (Monograph in press, https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.00.0.0)
  
  Qun Yu, Guoxing Chen, Yi Yang, Qingfeng Wang, Neng Wei^*. 2022. A remarkable new species of Euphorbia section Helioscopia (Euphorbia subgenus Esula,Euphorbiaceae) from Jiufeng Mountains in Fujian Province, Eastern China. Systematic Botany 47(1): 259–267.
  
  Can Dai^*，YanbingGong，FanLiu，PengchengFu，ShengweiWang，JianxinOuyang，LiuhuaZhang，YadongZhou，XueYan，XingLiu，TaoWan，QingfengWang^*. 2022. Touch induces rapid floral closure in gentians. Science Bulletin 67: 577-580.
  
  Sara Getachew Amenu, Neng Wei, Lei Wu, Oyetola Oyebanji, Guangwan Hu,Yadong Zhou^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2022. Phylogenomic and comparative analysesof Coffeeae alliance (Rubiaceae): deep insights into phylogenetic relationships and plastome evolution. BMC Plant Biology 22: 88.https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-022-03480-5
  
  Cornelius M. Kyalo, Lingyun Chen, Mathias Lema, Itambo Malombe, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2022. Multiple Pleistocene refugia and recent diversifification for Streptocarpus ionanthus (Gesneriaceae) complex: Insights from multiple molecular sources. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 60(1): 128-143.
  
  Zhizhong Li, Samuli Lehtonen, Karina Martins, Qingfeng Wang, Jinming Chen^*. 2022. Complete genus-level plastid phylogenomics of Alismataceae with revisited historical biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 166: 107334.
  
  Yadong Zhou, Keyan Xiao, Sichong Chen, Xing Liu, Qingfeng Wang^*, Xue Yan^*. 2022. Altitudinal diversity of aquatic plants in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Freshwater Biology 67: 709–719.
  
  Tao Wan, Zhiming Liu, Ilia J. Leitch, Haiping Xin, Gillian Maggs-K？lling, Yanbing Gong, Zhen Li, Eugene Marais, Yiying Liao, Can Dai, Fan Liu, Qijia Wu, Chi Song, Yadong Zhou, Weichang Huang, Kai Jiang, Qi Wang, Yong Yang, Zhixiang Zhong, Ming Yang, Xue Yan, Guangwan Hu, Chen Hou, Yingjuan Su, Shixiu Feng, Ji Yang, Jijun Yan, Jinfang Chu, Fan Chen, Jinhua Ran, Xiaoquan Wang*, Yves Van de Peer*, Andrew R. Leitch^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2021. The Welwitschia genome reveals a unique biology underpinning extreme longevity in deserts. Nature Communications 12: 4247.
  
  Andrew W. Gichira, Lingyun Chen, Zhizhong Li, Guangwan Hu, Josphat K. Saina, Robert W. Gituru, Qingfeng Wang, Jinming Chen^*. 2021. Plastid phylogenomics and insights into the inter-mountain dispersal of the Eastern African giant senecios (Dendrosenecio, Asteraceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 164 (2021): 107271.
  
  Yadong Zhou, Sara Getachew Amenu, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu, Qing-Feng Wang^*. 2021. Reinstatement of the independent specific status of Oldenlandia violacea (Rubiaceae) from the synonymy of O. monanthos. Phytotaxa 507 (4): 293–300.
  
  Neng Wei, Fredrick Munyao Mutie, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2021. A new combination in Zehneria (Cucurbitaceae). Phytotaxa 521 (2): 123–126.
  
  Neng Wei, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2021. Dracaena neobella nom. nov., a replacement name for D. bella (L.E.Newton) Byng& Christenh. (Asparagaceae). Phytotaxa 514 (1): 85–87.
  
  Zhi Wang, Shuai Peng, Ying Peng, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2021. Aspidistra longhuiensis (Asparagaceae), a new species from Hunan, China. Phytotaxa 510 (1): 89–93.
  
  Shuai Peng, Yiyan Cong, Jing Tian, Caifei Zhang, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2021. Impatiens bullatisepala (Balsaminaceae), a new species from Guizhou, China. Phytotaxa 500 (3): 217–224.
  
  Neng Wei, Fredrick Munyao Mutie, Geoffrey Mwachala, Olwen M. Grace, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2021. Euphorbia mbuinzauensis, a new succulent species in Kenya from the Synadenium group in Euphorbia sect. Monadenium (Euphorbiaceae). PhytoKeys 183: 21–35.
  
  Samuel Paul Kagame, Andrew W. Gichira,Lingyun Chen^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2021. Systematics of Lobelioideae (Campanulaceae):review, phylogenetic andbiogeographic analyses. PhytoKeys 174: 13–45.
  
  Hui Li, Xingyu Yang, Qingfeng Wang, Jinming Chen^*, Tao Shi^*. 2021. Distinct methylome patterns contribute to ecotypic differentiation in the growth of the storage organ of a flowering plant (sacred lotus). Molecular Ecology 30: 2831–2845.
  
  Neng Wei, Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar, Paul M. Musili, Weichang Huang, Junbo Yang, Aiqun Hu, Guangwan Hu, Olwen M. Grace^*,Qingfeng Wang^*. 2021. Plastome evolution in the hyperdiverse genus Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) using phylogenomic and comparative analyses: large-scale expansion and contraction of the inverted repeat region. Frontiers in Plant Science12: 712064.
  
  Can Dai^*, Quan Chen, Tao Wan, Fan Liu, Yanbing Gong, Qingfeng Wang^*. Literary runaway: Increasingly more references cited per academic research article from 1980 to 2019. PLoS ONE 16(8): e0255849. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255849
  
  Yadong Zhou, Biyansa Hirpo Boru, Shengwei Wang, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2021. Species richness and phylogenetic diversity of different growth forms of angiosperms across a biodiversity hotspot in the horn of Africa. Journal of Systematics and Evolution59(1): 141–150.
  
  Junnan Wan, Ndungu J. Mbari, Shengwei Wang, Bing Liu, Brian N. Mwangi, Jean R.E. Rasoarahona, Haiping Xin, Yadong Zhou^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2021. Modeling impacts of climate change on the potential distribution of six endemic baobab species in Madagascar. Plant Diversity 43: 117-124.
  
  Yongzhi Yang, Pengchuan Sun, Leke Lv, Donglei Wang, Dafu Ru, Ying Li, Tao Ma, Lei Zhang, Xingxing Shen, Fanbo Meng, Beibei Jiao, Lanxing Shan, Man Liu, Qingfeng Wang, Zhiji Qin, Zhenxiang Xi^*, Xiyin Wang^*, Charles C. Davis^*, Jianquan Liu^*. 2020. Prickly waterlily and rigid hornwort genomes shed light on early angiosperm evolution. Nature Plants6: 215–222.
  
  Jian Zhang, Xinxing Fu, Ruiqi Li, Xiang Zhao, Yang Liu, Minghe Li, Arthur Zwaenepoel, Hong Ma, Bernard Goffinet, Yanlong Guan, Jiayu Xue, Yiying Liao, Qingfeng Wang, Qinghua Wang, Jieyu Wang, Guoqiang Zhang, Zhiwen Wang, Yu Jia, Meizhi Wang, Shanshan Dong, Jianfen Yang, Yuannian Jiao, Yalong Guo, Hongzhi Kong, Anming Lu, Huanming Yang, Shouzhou Zhang*, Yves Van de Peer^*, Zhongjian Liu^*, Zhiduan Chen^*. 2020. The hornwort genome and early land plant evolution. Nature Plants 6: 107–118.
  
  Zeyuan Chen, Fandi Ai, Junlin Zhang, Xinzhi Ma, Wenlu Yang, Weiwei Wang, Yutao Su , Mingcheng Wang,Yongzhi Yang, Kangshan Mao, Qingfeng Wang, Martin Lascoux, Jianquan Liu, Tao Ma^*. 2020. Survival in the Tropics despite isolation, inbreeding and asexual reproduction: insights from the genome of the world’s southernmost poplar (Populus ilicifolia). The Plant Journal103: 430–442.
  
  R. Wambui Mbich, Qingfeng Wang^*, Tao Wan*. 2020. RNA directed DNA methylation and seed plant genome evolution. Plant Cell Reports 39: 983–996.
  
  Yuvenalis M. Mbuni, Shengwei Wang, Brian N. Mwangi, Ndungu J. Mbari, Paul M. Musili, Nyamolo O. Walter, Guangwan Hu, Yadong Zhou^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2020. Medicinal plants and their traditional uses in local communities around Cherangani Hills, Western Kenya.Plants 9: 331.
  
  Jing Tian, Caifei Zhang, Shuai Peng, Junjie Wang, Yan Wang, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. Lysionotus coccinus (Gesneriaceae), a new species from southwestern Yunnan, China. Nordic Journal of Botany 38(11): e02912.doi: 10.1111/njb.02912
  
  Zhizhong Li, Samuli Lehtonen, Karina Martins, Andrew W. Gichira, Shuang Wu, Wei Li, Guangwan Hu, Yan Liu, Chunyu Zou, Qingfeng Wang, Jinming Chen^*. 2020. Phylogenomics of the aquatic plant genus Ottelia(Hydrocharitaceae): Implications for historical biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 152: 106939.
  
  Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau, Mwadime Nyange, Neng Wei, Benjamin W. van Ee, Paul E. Berry, Itambo Malombe, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. A new species of Croton(Euphorbiaceae) from a Madagascan lineage discovered in coastal Kenya. Systematic Botany45(2): 242–248.
  
  Tao Shi, Razgar Seyed Rahmani, Paul F. Gugger, Muhua Wang, Hui Li, Yue Zhang, Zhizhong Li, Qingfeng Wang^*, Yves Van de Peer^*, Kathleen Marchal^*, Jinming Chen^*. 2020. Distinct expression and methylation patterns for genes with different fates following a single whole-genome duplication in flowering plants.Molecular Biology and Evolution37(8): 2394–2413.
  
  Zhizhong Li, Samuli Lehtonen, Karina Martinse, Andrew W. Gichira, Shuang Wu, Wei Li, Guangwan Hu, Yan Liu, Chunyu Zou, Qingfeng Wang, Jinming Chen^*. 2020. Phylogenomics of the aquatic plant genus Ottelia(Hydrocharitaceae): Implications for historical biogeography.Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution152:106939.
  
  Yadong Zhou, Brian Njoroge Mwangi, Paul Mutuku Musili, Guangwan Hu, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2020. Phyllopentas schimperi comb. nov. (Rubiaceae), a replacement name for the illegitimate combination Phyllopentas schimperiana. Phytotaxa435 (3): 251–254.
  
  Fredrick Munyao Mutie, Peninah Cheptoo Ronoi, Vivian Kathambi, Neng Wei, Peris Kamau, Robert Wahiti Gituru, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. Peponium elgonense (Cucurbitaceae), a new species from Mount Elgon in Kenya. Phytotaxa 443 (2): 189–197.
  
  Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau, Mwadime Nyange, Neng Wei, Itambo Malombe, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2020.Zehneria monocarpa (Cucurbitaceae), a new species from the relicts of Kenya’s coastal forests. Phytotaxa 443 (3): 258–264.
  
  Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau, Quentin Luke, Mwadime Nyange, Vincent Okelo Wanga, Benjamin Muema Watuma, Yuvenalis Morara Mbuni, Jacinta Ndunge Munyao, Millicent Akinyi Oulo, Elijah Mbandi Mkala, Solomon Kipkoech, Malombe Itambo, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. An annotated checklist of the coastal forests Kenya, East Africa.PhytoKeys 147: 1–191 (monograph).
  
  Solomon Kipkoech, David Kimutai Melly, Benjamin Watuma Muema, Neng Wei, Peris Kamau, Paul Muigai Kirika, Qingfeng Wang, Guangwan Hu^*. 2020. An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Aberdare Ranges Forest, a part of Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot.PhytoKeys 149: 1–88 (monograph).
  
  John K. Muchuku, Andrew W. Gichira, Shuying Zhao, Jin-Ming Chen, Lingyun Chen^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. Distribution pattern and habitat preference for Lobelia species (Campanulaceae) in five countries of East Africa.PhytoKeys 159: 45–60.
  
  Neng Wei, Zhixiang Zhong, David Kimutai Melly, Solomon Kipkoech, Benjamin Muema Watuma, Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau, Peris Kamau, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. Zehneria grandibracteata (Cucurbitaceae), an overlooked new species from western Kenyan forests.PhytoKeys 165: 85–98.
  
  Zhun Xu, Jing Tian, Solo Hery Jean Victor Rapanarivo, Rokiman Letsara, Rivontsoa A. Rakotonasolo, Guy E. Onjalalaina, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. Hydrostachys flabellifera (Hydrostachyaceae), a new species from Madagascar.PhytoKeys 167: 45–56.
  
  Shengwei Wang, Yadong Zhou^*, Paul Mutuku Musili, Geoffrey Mwachala, GuangwanHu, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. Inventory incompleteness and collecting priority on the plant diversity in tropical East Africa. Biological Conservation241: 108313.
  
  Shengwei Wang, Biyansa H. Boru, Antony W. Njogu, Anne C. Ochola, Guangwan Hu, Yadong Zhou^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2020. Floristic composition and endemism pattern of vascular plants in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Journal of Systematics and Evolution58(1): 33–42.
  
  Hongtao Li, Tingshuang Yi, Lianming Gao, Pengfei Ma, Ting Zhang, Junbo Yang, Matthew A. Gitzendanner, Peter W. Fritsch, Jie Cai, Yang Luo, Hong Wang, Michelle van der Bank, Shudong Zhang, Qingfeng Wang, Jian Wang, Zhirong Zhang, Chaonan Fu, Jing Yang, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Mark W. Chase, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis^*, Dezhu Li^*. 2019. Origin of angiosperms and the puzzle of the Jurassic gap. Nature Plants 5: 461–470.
  
  Xiaoming Sun, Langlang Zhang, Darren Chern Jan Wong, Yi Wang, Zhenfei Zhu, Guangzhao Xu , Qingfeng Wang, Shaohua Li , Zhenchang Liang^*, Haiping Xin^*. 2019. The ethylene response factor VaERF092 from Amur grape regulates the transcription factor VaWRKY33, improving cold tolerance. Plant Journal99: 988–1002.
  
  Zhizhong Li, Shuang Wu, Chunyu Zou, Yan Liu, Guangwan Hu, Samuli Lehtonen, Qingfeng Wang^*, Jinming Chen^*. 2019. Ottelia fengshanensis, a new bisexual species of Ottelia (Hydrocharitaceae) from southwestern China. PhytoKeys 135: 1–10.
  
  Watuma M.B., Neng Wei, K.D.Melly , S.Kipkoech, M.P.Kirika , Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2019. Zehneria tuberifera (Cucurbitaceae), a new species from Taita Hills, Kenya. Phytotaxa 411 (3): 215–222.
  
  Jing Tian, Weichang Huang, YuvenalisMbuni, P.Kamau , Geoffrey Mwachala, Itombe Malombe, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2019. Polystachya danielana (Orchidaceae: Polystachyinae), a new species from Kenya. Phytotaxa 405 (4): 195–202.
  
  Yuvenalis Mbuni, Yadong Zhou, Shengwei Wang, Veronicah Ngumbau, Paul Musili, Fredrick Mutie, Brian Njoroge, Paul Kirika, Geoffrey Mwachala, Kathambi Vivian, Peninah Rono, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2019. An annotated checklist of vascular plants of Cherangani hills, Western Kenya. Phytokeys 120: 1-90.
  
  Yadong Zhou, Shengwei Wang, Antony W. Njogu, Anne C. Ochola, Biyansa H. Boru, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2019. Spatial Congruence or mismatch between phylogenetic and functional structure of seed plants along a tropical elevational gradient: different traits Have different patterns. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7: 100.
  
  Yadong Zhou, Anne C. Ochola, Antony W. Njogu, Biyansa H. Boru, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu, Haiping Xin, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2019. The species richness pattern of vascular plants along a tropical elevational gradient and the test of elevational Rapoport’s rule depend on different life-forms and phytogeographic affinities. Ecology and Evolution 9: 4495-4503.
  
  Zhun Xu, Neng Wei, Ying Tan, Shuai Peng, Veronicah Mutele Ngumbao, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2019. Paris lihengiana (Melanthiaceae: Parideae), a new species from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 392 (1): 45-53.
  
  Zhizhong Li, Mengxue Lu, Andrew W. Gichira, Md. Rabiul Islam, Qingfeng Wang, Jinming Chen^*. 2019. Genetic diversity and population structure of Ottelia acuminata var. jingxiensis, an endangered endemic aquatic plant from southwest China. Aquatic Botany152: 20–26.
  
  Zhizhong Li, Kuo Liao, Chunyu Zou, Yan Liu, Guangwan Hu, Qingfeng Wang^*, Jinming Chen^*. 2018. Ottelia guanyangensis (Hydrocharitaceae), a new species from southwestern China. Phytotaxa 361 (3): 294–300.
  
  Zhongming Ye, Xiaofang Jin, David W. Inouye, Qingfeng Wang, Chunfeng Yang^*. 2018. Variation in composition of two bumble bee species across communities affects nectar robbing but maintains pollinator visitation rate to an alpine plant, Salvia przewalskii.Ecological Entomology43: 363–370.
  
  Lei Cai, Shuai Peng, Jing Tian, Zhiling Dao, Neng Wei, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2018. Aspidistra austroyunnanensis (Asparagaceae), a new species from southern Yunnan, China.Phytotaxa356 (3): 233–237.
  
  Yadong Zhou,Sichong Chen,Guangwan HU,Geoffrey Mwachala, Xue Yan,Qingfeng Wang^*. 2018. Species richness and phylogenetic diversity of seed plants across vegetation zones of Mount Kenya, East Africa. Ecology and Evolution8: 8930–8939.
  
  Zhiyuan Du, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2018. Impacts of the Asian interior arid zone on phylogeographic patterns in the eastern Asian flora revealed by two Potamogeton species (Potamogetonaceae): east-west divergence within species and barriers to north-south dispersal.Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society188(4): 391-405.
  
  Weichang Huang, Zhenwei Wang, Neng Wei, Jiao Zhu, Siren Lan^*, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang. 2018. Gastrodiaelatoides (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae: Gastrodieae), a new holomycoheterotrophic orchid from Madagascar. Phytotaxa 349(2): 167-172.
  
  Tao Wan, Zhiming Liu, Lingfei Li, Andrew R. Leitch, Ilia J. Leitch, Rolf Lohaus, Zhongjian Liu, Haiping Xin, Yanbing Gong, Yang Liu, Wencai Wang, Lingyun Chen, Yong Yang, Laura J. Kelly, Ji Yang, Jinling Huang, Zhen Li, Ping Liu, Li Zhang, Hongmei Liu, Hui Wang, Shuhan Deng, Meng Liu, Ji Li, Lu Ma, Yan Liu, Yang Lei, Wei Xu, Lingqing Wu, Fan Liu, Qian Ma, Xinran Yu, Zhi Jiang, Guoqiang Zhang, Shaohua Li, Ruiqiang Li, Shouzhou Zhang, Qingfeng Wang^*, Yves Van de Peer*, Jinbo Zhang^*, Xiaoming Wang^*. 2018. A genome for gnetophytes and early evolution of seed plants. Nature Plants 4: 82-89.
  
  Zhizhong Li, Neng Wei, Yan Liu, Jinming Chen, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2018. Lobelia hongiana (Campanulaceae), a new species from Guangxi, China. PhytoKeys95: 27-36.
  
  Yadong Zhou, Bing Liu, Yuvenlis Mbuni, Xue Yan, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2017. Vascular flora of Kenya, based on the Flora of Tropical East Africa. PhytoKeys 90: 113–126.
  
  Zhi Wang, Xiuzhen Cai, Zhixiang Zhong, Zhun Xu, Neng Wei, Jiafen Xie, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2017. Paris nitida (Melanthiaceae), a new species from Hubei and Hunan, China. Phytotaxa 314 (1): 145–149.
  
  Neng Wei, Daniel Odhiambo Miyawa, Melly Kimutai David, Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau, Zhixiang Zhong, Geoffrey Mwachala, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2017. Zehneria longiflora (Cucurbitaceae), a new species from Kenya. Phytotaxa324 (1): 89–94.
  
  Andrew W. Gichira, Zhizhong Li, Josphat K. Saina, Guangwan Hu, Robert W. Gituru, Qingfeng Wang^*, Jinming Chen^*. 2017. Demographic history and population genetic structureof Hagenia abyssinica (Rosaceae), a tropical tree endemicto the Ethiopian highlands and eastern African mountains. Tree Genetics & Genomes 13: 72. DOI 10.1007/s11295-017-1156-6.
  
  Li Yang, Jun You, Yanping Wang, Jinzhu Li, Wenli Quan, Mingzhu Yin, Qingfeng Wang^*, Zhulong Chan^*. 2017. Systematic analysis of the G-box Factor 14-3-3 gene family and functional characterization of GF14a in Brachypodium distachyon. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 117: 1-11.
  
  Zhongming Ye, Xiaofang Jin, Qingfeng Wang^*, Chunfeng Yang^*, David W. Inouye. 2017. Pollinators shift to nectar robbers when florivory occurs, with effects on reproductive success in Iris bulleyana(Iridaceae). Plant Biology19: 760-766.
  
  MingzhuYin, YanpingWang, LihuaZhang, JinzhuLi, WenliQuan, LiYang, Qingfeng Wang^*, Zhulong Chan^*. 2017. The Arabidopsis Cys2/His2 zinc finger transcription factor ZAT18 is a positive regulator of plant tolerance to drought stress. Journal of Experimental Botany 68(11): 2991-3005.
  
  Jinming Chen, Zhiyuan Du, Zhicheng Long, Andrew W. Gichira, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2017. Molecular divergence among varieties of Ottelia acuminata (Hydrocharitaceae) in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Aquatic Botany 140: 62-68.
  
  Zhongming Ye, Xiaofang Jin, Qingfeng Wang^*, Chunfeng Yang^*, David W. Inouye. 2017. Nectar replenishment maintains the neutral effects of nectar robbing on female reproductive success of Salvia przewalskii (Lamiaceae), a plant pollinated and robbed by bumble bees. Annals of Botany119 (6): 1053-1059.
  
  Wenkui Dai, Edwin Luguba Kadiori, Qingfeng Wang^*, Chunfeng Yang^*. 2017. Pollen limitation, plasticity in floral traits and mixed mating system in an alpine plant Pedicularis siphonantha (Orobanchaceae) from different altitudes: Plasticity in floral traits and mixed mating system in an alpine plant. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 55(3): 192-199.
  
  Veronicah Mutele Ngumbau, Mwadime Nyange, Can Dai, Zhixiang Zhong, Neng Wei, Itambo Malombe, Guangwan Hu^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2017. Adenia angulosa (Passifloraceae), a new species from coastal forests of Kenya and Tanzania.Phytotaxa 313 (1): 137–142.
  
  Yadong Zhou, Yuvenalis Mbuni, Guangwan Hu, Zhixiang Zhong, Xue Yan, Geoffrey Mwachala, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2017. Cissampelos keniensis (Menispermaceae), a new species from Mt. Kenya, East Africa. Phytotaxa 292 (1): 57–64.
  
  Yiying Liao, Andrew Wanyoike Gichira, Qingfeng Wang^*, Jinming Chen^*. 2016. Molecular phylogeography of four endemic Sagittaria species (Alismataceae) in the Sino-Japanese Floristic Region of East Asia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society18: 6-20.
  
  Zhiyuan Du, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2016. Allopatric divergence of Stuckenia filiformis (Potamogetonaceae) onthe Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and itscomparative phylogeography with S. pectinata in China. Scientific Reports6: 20883.
  
  Lingyun Chen, Qingfeng Wang^*, Susanne S. Renner^*. 2016. East Asian Lobelioideae and ancient divergence of a giant rosette Lobelia in Himalayan Bhutan. Taxon 65(2): 293-304.
  
  Shuying Zhao, Lingyun Chen, John. K. Muchuku, Guangwan Hu, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2016. Genetic adaptation of giant lobelias (Lobelia aberdarica and Lobelia telekii) to contrast altitudes in East African mountains. Frontiers in Plant Science 7: e488.
  
  Zhiyuan Du, Qingfeng Wang^*, China Phylogeny Consortium. 2016. Phylogenetic tree of vascular plants reveals the origins of aquatic angiosperms.Journal of Systematics and Evolution 54 (4): 342-348.
  
  Yadong Zhou, Guangwan Hu, Xue Yan, Geoffrey Mwachala, Robert W. Gituru, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2016. Sedum keniense (Crassulaceae), a new species from Mt. Kenya, East Africa. Phytotaxa 216(2): 177-184.
  
  Yadong Zhou, Yuvenalis Mbuni, Guangwan Hu, Xue Yan, Geoffrey Mwachala, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2016. Zehneria subcoriacea (Cucurbitaceae), a new species from Kenya. Phytotaxa 277(3): 282-286.
  
  Xiaofang Jin, Zhongming Ye, Qingfeng Wang^*, Chunfeng Yang^*. 2015. Relationship of stigma behaviors and breeding system in three Mazus (Phrymaceae) species with bilobed stigma. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 53: 259–265.
  
  Shuying Zhao, Shiguo Sun, Can Dai, Robert W. Gituru, Jinming Chen, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2015. Genetic variation and structure in native and invasive Solidago canadensis populations. Weed Research 55: 163-172.
  
  Jinming Chen, Shuying Zhao, Yiying Liao, Andrew Wanyoike Gichira, Robert Wahiti Gituru, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2015. Chloroplast DNA phylogeographic analysis reveals significant spatial genetic structure of the relictual tree Davidia involucrata (Davidiaceae). Conservation Genetics 16: 583-593.
  
  Lingyun Chen, Shuying Zhao, Qingfeng Wang^*, M.L. Moody. 2015. Transcriptome sequencing of three Ranunculus species (Ranunculaceae) reveals candidate genes in adaptation from terrestrial to aquatic habitats. Scientific Reports 5: 10098.
  
  Lingyun Chen, J.K. Muchuku, Xue Yan, Guangwan Hu, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2015. Phylogeography of Haplocarpharueppelii(Asteraceae) suggests a potential geographic barrier for plant dispersal and gene flow in East Africa. Science Bulletin 60(13): 1184-1192.
  
  Lingyun Chen, G.W. Grimm, Qingfeng Wang, Susanne S. Renner^*. 2015. A phylogeny and biogeographic analysis for the Cape-Pondweed family Aponogetonaceae (Alismatales). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82: 111-117.
  
  Chunfeng Yang, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2015. Nectarless flowers with deep corolla tubes in Pedicularis: does long pistil length provide an arena for male competition? Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 526–532.
  
  Shuping Gu, Liyan Yin, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2015. Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in the stem of the submersed species Egeria densa may be involved in an inducible C4-like mechanism. Aquatic Botany 125:1-8.
  
  Zhongming Ye, Wenkui Dai, Xiaofang Jin, Robert Wahiti Gituru, Qingfeng Wang^*, Chunfeng Yang^*. 2014. Competition and facilitation among plants for pollination: Can pollinator abundance shift the plant-plant interactions? Plant Ecology 215: 3–13.
  
  Jinming Chen, Zhiyuan Du, Yangyang Yuan, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2014. Phylogeography of an alpine aquatic herb Ranunculus bungei (Ranunculaceae) on the Qinghai-Tiibet Plateau. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 52(3): 313-325.
  
  Yiying Liao, Youhao Guo, Jinming Chen^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2014. Phylogeography of the widespread plant Ailanthus altissima (Simaroubaceae) in China indicated by three chloroplast DNA regions. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 52 (2): 175–185.
  
  Lingyun Chen, Shuying Zhao, Kangshan Mao, D.H. Les, Qingfeng Wang^*, M.L. Moody. 2014. Historical biogeography of Haloragaceae: An out-of-Australia hypothesis with multiple intercontinental dispersals. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78: 87-95.
  
  Dun Wang, Shuangze Xie, Ji Yang, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2014. Molecular characteristics and expression patterns of Rubisco activase, novel alternative splicing variants in a heterophyllous aquatic plant, Sagittaria graminea. Photosynthetica 52(1): 83-95.
  
  Yadong Zhou, Keyan Xiao, Guangwan Hu, Qinghua Zhan, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2014. Reappraisal of Nymphoides coronate (Menyanthaceae), A 100-year-lost species endemic to South China. Phytotaxa 184(3): 170-173.
  
  Xue Yan, Haowen Wang, Qingfeng Wang^*, Lars G. Rudstam. 2013. Risk spreading, habitat selection and division of biomass in a submerged clonal plant: Responses to heterogeneous copper pollution. Environmental Pollution 174: 114-120.
  
  Lingyun Chen, Jinming Chen, Robert Wahiti Gituru, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2013. Eurasian origin of Alismatidae inferred from statistical dispersal–vicariance analysis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution67: 38-42.
  
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  Yihong Zheng, Andrew J. Alverson, Qingfeng Wang, Jeffrey D. Palmer^*. 2013. Chloroplast phylogeny of Cucurbita: evolution of the domesticated and wild species. Journal of Systematics and Evolution51(3): 326-334.
  
  Chunfeng Yang, Qingfeng Wang^*, Youhao Guo. 2013. Pollination in a patchy-distributed lousewort is facilitated by presence of a co-flowering plant due to enhancement of quantity and quality of pollinator visits. Annals of Botany 112: 1751-1758.
  
  Yiying Liao, Xiaoli Yue, Youhao Guo, Robert W. Gituru, Qingfeng Wang^*,Jinming Chen^*. 2013.Genotypic diversity and genetic structure of populations of the distylous aquatic plant Nymphoides peltata(Menyanthaceae) in China.Journal of Systematics and Evolution 51(5): 536-544.
  
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  Lingyun Chen, Jinming Chen, Robert W. Gituru, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2012. Generic phylogeny, historical biogeography and character evolution of the cosmopolitan aquatic plant family Hydrocharitaceae. BMC Evolutionary Biology12: 30.
  
  Chao Xu, Zhiyuan Du, Jinming Chen, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2012. Microsatellite primers for the endangered aquatic herb, Ottelia acuminata (Hydrocharitaceae). American Journal of Botany 99: e262–e264.
  
  Jun Li, Qingfeng Wang^*, Robert W. Gituru, Chunfeng Yang, Youhao Guo. 2012. Reversible anther opening enhances male fitness in a dichogamous aquatic plant Butomus umbellatus L., the flowering rush. Aquatic Botany 99: 27-33.
  
  Zhiyuan Du, Alitong Qimeke, Chunfeng Yang, Jinming Chen, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2011. Testing four barcoding markers for species identification of Potamogetonaceae. Journal of Systematics and Evolution49 (3): 246–251.
  
  Yiying Liao, Xingyu Yang, Timothy J. Motley, Jinming Chen, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2011. Phylogeographic analysis reveals two cryptic species of the endangered fern Ceratopteris thalictroides (L.) Brongn. (Parkeriaceae) in China. Conservation Genetics 12:1357-1365.
  
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  Yuhang Wang, Jinming Chen, Chao Xu, Xing Liu, Qingfeng Wang^*, Timothy J. Motley. 2010. Population genetic structure of an aquatic herb Batrachium bungei (Ranunculaceae) in the Hengduan Mountains of China. Aquatic Botany 92(3): 221-225.
  
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  Jinming Chen, Robert W. Gituru, Fan Liu, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2008. Chloroplast DNA phylogeography of the Chinese endemic alpine quillwort Isoetes hypsophila Hand.-Mazz. (Isoetaceae).International Journal of Plant Sciences169(6): 792–798.
  
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  Bo Tan, Kang Liu, Xiaoli Yue, Fan Liu, Jinming Chen^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2008. Chloroplast DNA variation and phylogeographic patterns in the Chinese endemic marsh herb Sagittaria potamogetifolia. Aquatic Botany 89(4): 372-378.
  
  Fan Liu, Xiaoli Yue, Jinming Chen^*, Qingfeng Wang^*. 2008. Gender modification in a monoecious species Sagittaria potamogetifolia (Alismataceae). Plant Ecology199:217–223.
  
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