2002-09--2006-08 Ph.D. in Science: Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1997-09--2000-07 M.Sc. in Science: Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1991-09--1995-06 B.Sc. in Biology: Southwest Normal University
1995-07 to 1997-09 - Huili County Ethnic Middle School, Sichuan Province - Secondary School Teacher
2000-08 to Present - Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences - Research Intern, Assistant Researcher, Associate Researcher, Researcher (Research Group Leader since January 2011)
2005-02 to 2005-05 - Department of Botany, California Academy of Science - Visiting Scholar
2011-08 to 2013-02 - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto - Visiting Scholar
Research
Plant Phylogenomics Comparative and Functional Genomics Biosynthesis Pathways of Medicinal Plant Secondary Metabolites Biogeography
Historical biogeography and evolutionary diversification of Lilium (Liliaceae): New insights from plastome phylogenomics, Nian Zhou, Ke Miao, Changkun Liu, Linbo Jia, Jinjin Hu, Yongjiang Huang, Yunheng Ji, 2024
Plastid phylogenomics and fossil evidence provide new insights into the evolutionary complexity of the 'woody clade' in Saxifragales, Lin-Bo Jia, Shu-Yin Wang, Jin-Jin Hu, Ke Miao, Yong-Jiang Huang, Yun-Heng Ji, 2024
Comparative and phylogenetic analyses of Loranthaceae plastomes provide insights into the evolutionary trajectories of plastome degradation in hemiparasitic plants, Lilei Tang, Tinglu Wang, Luxiao Hou, Guangfei Zhang, Min Deng, Xiaorong Guo, Yunheng Ji, 2024
Phylogeny and evolution of Asparagaceae subfamily Nolinoideae: new insights from plastid phylogenomics, Ji, Yunheng, Landis, Jacob B, Yang, Jin, Wang, Shuying, Zhou, Nian, Luo, Yan, Liu, Haiyang, 2023
Miocene Dipteronia (Sapindaceae) samaras from South Korea and their biogeographical implications, Lin-Bo Jia, Gi-Soo Nam, Tao Su, Xia Yang, Zhe-Kun Zhou, Yun-Heng Ji, 2023
Genome skimming as an efficient tool for authenticating commercial products of the pharmaceutically important Paris yunnanensis (Melanthiaceae), Zhou, Nian, Tang, Lilei, Xie, Pingxuan, Miao, Ke, Yang, Chengjin, Liu, Haiyang, Ji, Yunheng, 2023
Testing and using complete plastomes for authentication of medicinal Polygonatum species (Asparagaceae), Shuying Wang, Nian Zhou, Naixing Shi, Guangfei Zhang, Haiyang Liu, Xiaorong Guo, Yunheng Ji, 2023
Unraveling the serial glycosylation in the biosynthesis of steroidal saponins in the medicinal plant Paris polyphylla and their antifungal action, Yuegui Chen, Qin Yan, Yunheng Ji, Xue Bai, Desen Li, Rongfang Mu, Kai Guo, Minjie Yang, Yang Tao, Jonathan Gershenzon, Yan Liu, Shenghong Li, 2023
Genome Skimming Contributes to Clarifying Species Limits in Paris Section Axiparis (Melanthiaceae), Ji, Yunheng, Yang, Jin, Landis, Jacob B, Wang, Shuying, Jin, Lei, Xie, Pingxuan, Liu, Haiyang, Yang, JunBo, Yi, TingShuang, 2022
Vegetation diversity and distribution in the Pliocene of the southern Hengduan Mountains region, 黄永江, 苏涛, 朱海, 贾林波, 胡瑾瑾, 纪运恒, 周浙昆, 2022
Steroidal saponins with cytotoxic activity from the stems and leaves of Paris fargesii, Yu, LingLing, Li, YanXi, Gao, WenTao, Ling, ShanShan, Ni, Wei, Ji, YunHeng, Liu, HaiYang, 2022
Plastome sequencing for accurate and effective authentication of Polygonatum kingianum (Asparagaceae), Guo, Xiaorong, Shi, Naixing, Xie, Pingxuan, Zhang, Guangfei, Liu, Haiyang, Ji, Yunheng, 2022
Plastome phylogenomics of the East Asian endemic genus Dobinea, Liu, Changkun, Yang, Jin, Jin, Lei, Wang, Shuying, Yang, Zhenyan, Ji, Yunheng, 2021
Deciphering the Taxonomic Delimitation of Ottelia acuminata (Hydrocharitaceae) Using Complete Plastomes as Super-Barcodes, Ji, Yunheng, Yang, Jin, Landis, Jacob B, Wang, Shuying, Yang, Zhenyan, Zhang, Yonghong, 2021
Plastome phylogenomics of Cephalotaxus (Cephalotaxaceae) and allied genera, Ji, Yunheng, Liu, Changkun, Landis, Jacob B, Deng, Min, Chen, Jiahui, 2021
Highly degenerate plastomes in two hemiparasitic dwarf mistletoes: Arceuthobium chinense and A. pini (Viscaceae), Guo, Xiaorong, Zhang, Guangfei, Fan, Linyuan, Liu, Changkun, Ji, Yunheng, 2021
The complete plastomes of two flowering epiparasites (Phacellaria glomerata and P. compressa): Gene content, organization, and plastome degradation, Guo, Xiaorong, Liu, Changkun, Wang, Hengchang, Zhang, Guangfei, Yan, Hanjing, Jin, Lei, Su, Wenhua, Ji, Yunheng, 2021
Ultra-Barcoding Discovers a Cryptic Species in Paris yunnanensis (Melanthiaceae), a Medicinally Important Plant, Ji, Yunheng, Liu, Changkun, Yang, Jin, Jin, Lei, Yang, Zhenyan, Yang, JunBo, 2020
Genetic characterization of the entire range of Cycas panzhihuaensis (Cycadaceae), Xiao, Siyue, Ji, Yunheng, Liu, Jian, Gong, Xun, 2020
Molecular networking uncovers steroidal saponins of Paris tengchongensis, Wang, Jie, Li, Dan, Ni, Wei, Qin, XuJie, Liu, Hui, Yu, LingLing, Qiao, Xue, Ji, YunHeng, He, Li, Nian, SiHui, Liu, HaiYang, 2020
The Complete Plastomes of Five Hemiparasitic Plants (Osyris wightiana,Pyrularia edulis,Santalum album,Viscum liquidambaricolum, andV. ovalifolium): Comparative and Evolutionary Analyses Within Santalales, Guo, Xiaorong, Liu, Changkun, Zhang, Guangfei, Su, Wenhua, Landis, Jacob B, Zhang, Xu, Wang, Hengchang, Ji, Yunheng, 2020
Plastome phylogenomics of Saussurea (Asteraceae: Cardueae), Zhang, Xu, Deng, Tao, Moore, Michael J, Ji, Yunheng, Lin, Nan, Zhang, Huajie, Meng, Aiping, Wang, Hengchang, Sun, Yanxia, Sun, Hang, 2019
Testing and using complete plastomes and ribosomal DNA sequences as the next generation DNA barcodes in Panax (Araliaceae), Ji, Yunheng, Liu, Changkun, Yang, Zhenyan, Yang, Lifang, He, Zhengshan, Wang, Hengchang, Yang, Junbo, Yi, Tingshuang, 2019
Paris variabilis (Melanthiaceae), a new species from southwestern China, Yang, Zhenyan, Yang, Chengjin, Ji, Yunheng, 2019
Plastome phylogenomics, biogeography, and clade diversification of Paris (Melanthiaceae), Ji, Yunheng, Yang, Lifang, Chase, Mark W, Liu, Changkun, Yang, Zhenyan, Yang, Jin, Yang, JunBo, Yi, TingShuang, 2019
Genome-wide analysis of Cushion willow provides insights into alpine plant divergence in a biodiversity hotspot, Chen, Jiahui, Huang, Yuan, Brachi, Benjamin, Yun, Quanzheng, Zhang, Wei, Lu, Wei, Li, Hongna, Li, Wenqing, Sun, Xudong, Wang, Guangyan, He, Jun, Zhou, Zhuo, Chen, Kaiyun, Ji, Yunheng, Shi, Mingming, Sun, Wenguang, Yang, Yongping, Zhang, Rengang, Abbott, Richard J, Sun, Hang, 2019
Chloroplast phylogenomic analysis provides insights into the evolution of the largest eukaryotic genome holder, Paris japonica (Melanthiaceae), Yang, Lifang, Yang, Zhenyan, Liu, Changkun, He, Zhengshan, Zhang, Zhirong, Yang, Jing, Liu, Haiyang, Yang, Junbo, Ji, Yunheng, 2019
Complete chloroplast genome of the economically important crop, Amorphophallus konjac (Araceae), Liu, Changkun, Yang, Zhenyan, Yang, Lifang, Ji, Yunheng, 2019
Characterization of the whole plastome of Dipentodon Sinicus (Dipentodontaceae), Liu, Changkun, Li, Lili, Jin, Lei, Yang, Zhenyan, Ji, Yunheng, 2019
Complete plastome of Toricellia tiliifolia (Toricelliaceae), a relict plant, Liu, Changkun, Yang, Lifang, Yang, Zhenyan, Ji, Yunheng, 2019
Transcriptome analyses of Paris polyphylla var. chinensis, Ypsilandra thibetica, and Polygonatum kingianum characterize their steroidal saponin biosynthesis pathway
