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Kuang Yanfeng
Highest Education Ph.D
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Phone 020-37252606
Email kuangyf05@scbg.ac.cn
Office Xingke Road 723, Tianhe District, Guangzhou
Education and Appointments

Academic positions

01/2021–present  CHUN Woon-Young Associate Professor, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

12/2016–12/2020 Assistant Professor, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

12/2015–11/2016 Academic visitor, University of Leicester UK

12/2015–09/2009 Assistant Professor, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Educations

09/2004–06/2009 Ph.D., South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

9/2008–03/2009 Visiting Scholar, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

09/2000–06/2004 B.Sc., College of Life Sciences, Hunan Normal University, China

Research Interest

Plant Developmental and Evolutionary Biology, Plant Resources, Public Education

Public Services

Vice Director of the Science Education Committee, Guangzhou Research Association for Public Education Resources (GRAPER)

Honors

The popular science film ‘Track the Matchmakers of Plants’ won the first prize of "TV broadcasting" for outstanding popular science works in Guangzhou (2015), the first prize of "TV broadcasting" for the 10th Guangdong provincial excellent popular science works (2015), and the silver award of the 4th China Association of Popular Science Writers (film and television animation) for outstanding popular science works (2016)

Selected Publication

1) Kuang, Y(*), Yue, L, Balslev, H, Liao, J. Pollen development in three selected species of Rubiaceae provides ontogenetic evidence for pollen evolution, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2021, 289: 104413.

2）Zhang, J, Xia N, Kuang Y(*). Hoya tengchongensis (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae) – a new species from Yunnan, China. Nordic Journal of Botany, 2019, 37(5): e02282.

3) Yue, L., Kuang, Y(*), Liao, J. Ontogeny of permanent tetrads in Gardenia jasminoides (Rubiaceae) provides insight into pollen evolution, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2017, 247: 120-132.

4) Yue, L., Twell, D., Kuang, Y(*)., Liao, J., & Zhou, X. Transcriptome analysis of Hamelia patens (Rubiaceae) anthers reveals candidate genes for tapetum and pollen wall development, Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017, 7: 1991.

5) Kuang, Y(*)，Liao, J, Calcium distribution during pollen development of Uncaria hirsuta Havil. (Rubiaceae): with special reference to the function of protruding oncus, Grana, 2015, 54: 12-25.

6) Fu, Q，Liu, H，Almeida, A，Kuang, Y(*)，Zou, P，Liao, J，Molecular basis of floral petaloidy: insights from androecia of Canna indica, AoB Plants, 2014, 6: plu015.

7) Kuang, Y，Kirchoff, B，Liao, J(*)，Presence of the protruding oncus is affected by anther dehiscence and acetolysis technique, Grana, 2012, 51(4): 253-262.

8) Miao, M, Liu, H, Kuang, Y, Zou, P(*), & Liao, J. P. Floral vasculature and ontogeny in Canna indica. Nordic Journal of Botany, 2014, 32(4): 485-492.