2005-09--2010-12 PhD: Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2001-09--2005-06 Bachelor's Degree: Shandong University of Technology
2017-04~Present - Group Leader (PI) of Conservation Horticulture and Germplasm Innovation
2022-01~Present - Researcher, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016-01~2021-12 - Project Researcher, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2014-01~2015-12 - Associate Researcher, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2011-01~2013-12 - Assistant Researcher, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences
First Prize (2019): Key Technology Innovation and Application of Rhododendron Germplasm Resources, Provincial Level
Research
Evolutionary Ecology Conservation Horticulture
Subgenome-aware analyses suggest a reticulate allopolyploidization origin in three Papaver genomes., RenGang Zhang, Chaoxia Lu, GuangYuan Li, Jie Lv, Longxin Wang, ZhaoXuan Wang, Zhe Chen, Dan Liu, Ye Zhao, TianLe Shi, Wei Zhang, ZhaoHui Tang, JianFeng Mao, YongPeng Ma, KaiHua Jia, Wei Zhao., 2023
The chromosome-level genome assembly and genes involved in biosynthesis of nervonic acid of Malania oleifera., Tianquan Yang, Rengang Zhang, Xiaoling Tian, Gang Yao, Yuanting Shen, Sihai Wang, Jianfeng Mao, Guangyuan Li, Aizhong Liu, Weibang Sun, Yongpeng Ma., 2023
TEsorter: An accurate and fast method to classify LTR-retrotransposons in plant genomes., RenGang Zhang, GuangYuan Li, XiaoLing Wang, Jacques Dainat, ZhaoXuan Wang, Shujun Ou, Yongpeng Ma., 2022
Demographic history and identification of threats revealed by population genomic analysis provide insights into conservation for an endangered maple., Ma, Yongpeng, Liu, Detuan, Wariss, Hafiz Muhammad, Zhang, Rengang, Tao, Lidan, Milne, Richard, I, Sun, Weibang., 2022
When tropical and subtropical congeners met: Multiple ancient hybridization events within Eriobotrya in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, a tropical-subtropical transition area in China., Chen, Sufang, Milne, Richard, Zhou, Renchao, Meng, Kaikai, Yin, Qianyi, Guo, Wei, Ma, Yongpeng, Mao, Kangshan, Xu, Kewang, Kim, YoungDong, Truong Van Do, Liao, Wenbo, Fan, Qiang., 2022
Genome-wide analysis of butterfly bush (Buddleja alternifolia) in three uplands provides insights into biogeography, demography and speciation., Ma, YongPeng, Wariss, Hafiz Muhammad, Liao, RongLi, Zhang, RenGang, Yun, QuanZheng, Olmstead, Richard G, Chau, John H, Milne, Richard, I, Van de Peer, Yves, Sun, WeiBang., 2021
Chromosome-level genome assembly and population genetic analysis of a critically endangered rhododendron provide insights into its conservation., Ma, Hong, Liu, Yongbo, Liu, Detuan, Sun, Weibang, Liu, Xiongfang, Wan, Youming, Zhang, Xiujiao, Zhang, Rengang, Yun, Quanzheng, Wang, Jihua, Li, Zhenghong, Ma, Yongpeng., 2021
Conservation Genomics of a ThreatenedRhododendron: Contrasting Patterns of Population Structure Revealed From Neutral and Selected SNPs., Liu, Detuan, Zhang, Lu, Wang, Jihua, Ma, Yongpeng., 2020
How a New Conservation Action Concept Has Accelerated Plant Conservation in China., Sun, WeiBang, Ma, YongPeng, Blackmore, Stephen., 2019
Correction to: De novo genome assembly of the endangered Acer yangbiense, a plant species with extremely small populations endemic to Yunnan De novo genome assembly of the endangered Acer yangbiense , a plant species with extremely small populations endemic to Yunnan Province, China., Jing Yang, Hafiz Muhammad Wariss, Lidan Tao, Rengang Zhang, Quanzheng Yun, Peter Hollingsworth, Zhiling Dao, Guifen Luo, Huijun Guo, Yongpeng Ma, Weibang Sun., 2019
Conservation implications of asymmetric introgression and reproductive barriers in a rare primrose species., Ma, Yongpeng, Marczewski, Tobias, Xue, Dan, Wu, Zhikun, Liao, Rongli, Sun, Weibang, Marczewski, Jane., 2019
Genome sequence of Malania oleifera, a threatened tree with great value for nervonic acid production., 马永鹏., 2019
Strong reproductive isolation despite occasional hybridization between a widely distributed and a narrow endemic Rhododendron species., Ma, YongPeng, Xie, WeiJia, Sun, WeiBang, Marczewski, Tobias., 2016
Natural hybridization and asymmetric introgression at the distribution margin of two Buddleja species with a large overlap., Liao, RongLi, Ma, YongPeng, Gong, WeiChang, Chen, Gao, Sun, WeiBang, Zhou, RenChao, Marczewski, Tobias., 2015
Unidirectional hybridization and reproductive barriers between two heterostylous primrose species in NW Yunnan, China., 马永鹏., 2013
Natural Hybridization between Rhododendron delavayi and R-cyanocarpum (Ericaceae), from Morphological, Molecular and Reproductive Evidence., Ma, YongPeng, Zhang, ChangQin, Zhang, JingLi, Yang, JunBo., 2010
UNUSUAL PATTERNS OF HYBRIDIZATION INVOLVING A NARROW ENDEMIC RHODODENDRON SPECIES (ERICACEAE) IN YUNNAN, CHINA., Ma, Yongpeng, Milne, Richard I, Zhang, Changqin, Yang, Junbo., 2010
