A5087520008- Plant and animal studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Phytochemistry and biological activities of Ficus species
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Ecology and Conservation Studies
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
Mianyang Normal University
2016-2025
East China Normal University
2021-2025
Hangzhou Normal University
2025
University of Pretoria
2019-2020
Dipterocarpoideae species form the emergent layer of Asian rainforests. They are indicator for rainforest distribution, but they severely threatened. Here, to understand their adaptation and population decline, we assemble high-quality genomes seven including two autotetraploid species. We estimate divergence time between Malvaceae within be 108.2 (97.8‒118.2) 88.4 (77.7‒102.9) million years ago, identify a whole genome duplication event preceding dipterocarp lineage diversification. find...
Abstract Closely related and co-distributed species usually share a common phylogeographic history, but it is still largely unclear whether ecologically interacting can respond synchronously to historical climate changes. Here, we focused on fig-pollinator mutualism comprising Ficus pumila var. its obligate pollinators (morphospecies Wiebesia pumilae), collected samples across most of their distribution ranges. We employed both cytoplasmic DNA sequences nuclear microsatellite loci reveal the...
ABSTRACT Aim Dispersal of plant propagules and their genes is crucial for responses to landscape heterogeneities, yet the mechanisms behind this dispersal remain unclear. Ficus species depend on wind‐borne fig wasps pollination, but research airflow effects genetic structure has produced conflicting results. Our study aims clarify role wind in shaping such plants with insect pollinators by examining how geomorphological complexity interacts air movements influence structures. Location...
Abstract The dynamics of populations and their divergence over time have shaped current levels biodiversity in the case “sky islands” mountainous southwest (SW) China resulted an area exceptional botanical diversity. Ficus tikoua is a prostrate fig tree subendemic to that displays unique intraspecific diversity, producing figs typical different pollination modes parts its range. By combining climate models, genetic variation tree's obligate wasp pollinators distributions plant phenotypes, we...
Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) are among the most damaging pathogens to host plants. Plants can modulate their associated bacteria cope with nematode infections. The tritrophic plant–nematode–microbe interactions highly taxa-dependent, resulting in effectiveness of agents being variable different Ficus tikoua is a versatile plant high application potential for fruits or medicines. In recent years, few farmers have attempted cultivate this species Sichuan, China, where parasitic present. We...
Abstract Most plants are pollinated passively, but active pollination has evolved among insects that depend on ovule fertilization for larval development. Anther‐to‐ovule ratios (A/O ratios, a coarse indicator of pollen‐to‐ovule ratios) strong indicators mode in fig trees and consistent within most species. However, unusually high values variation A/O (0.096–10.0) were detected male from 41 natural populations Ficus tikoua China. Higher proportions (staminate) flowers associated with change...
Introduction Plants that display heteroblasty possess conspicuous variations in leaf morphology between their juvenile and adult phases, with certain species retaining juvenile-like leaves even adulthood. Nevertheless, the ecological advantages of maintaining two or more distinct types heteroblastic plants at stage remain unclear. Method The aim this study is to examine adaptive significance sampled from branches divergent functions (sterile fertile branches) mature Ficus pumila individuals...
Dispersal that unites spatially subdivided populations into a metapopulation with source-sink dynamics is crucial for species persistence in fragmented landscapes. Understanding such pollinators particularly urgent owing to the ongoing global pollination crisis. Here, we investigated population structure and of pollinating wasp (Wiebesia sp. 3) Ficus pumila Zhoushan Archipelago China. We found significant asymmetry pairwise migrant numbers 22 28 cases on historical timescale, but only two...
Abstract Plants and their pollinators may respond differently to environmental changes like climate warming. As a consequence, whether the can successfully track migration of plants rebuild an effective pollinator network are crucial for mutualistic relationships, especially obligate mutualisms. Ficus altissima is commonly planted tree out its native range, providing opportunity determine if obligatory pollinating wasp species, Eupristina , range expansion host. Using mtDNA COI gene, we...