Hong De-Yuan

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Hong De-Yuan, Munich 2005

Hong De-Yuan ( Chinese  洪德 元 , Pinyin Hóng Déyuán ; * 1937 ) is a Chinese botanist and has been a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences since 1991 . He was born in Anhui Province . Its botanical author abbreviation is " DYHong ".

Training and research

Hong De-Yuan studied biology at Fudan University in Shanghai from 1957 to 1962 . 1962–1966 as a doctoral student in systematic botany at the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy. 1979–1981 to specialize at Lund University in Sweden.

Hong-De-Yuan is Vice President of the Flora of China Committee .

Elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991. 1997 Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of America. 2003 eighth President of the Botanical Society of China.

His specialty is the genus Paeonia . In the "Flora of China" he has a. a. looks after the families Campanulaceae, Dipsaceae and Valerialaceae.

Works

Hong De-Yuan has published numerous scientific articles on the taxonomy and phylogeny of peonies. He has written fundamental studies on the relationships between the species occurring in China, the Caucasus and the Mediterranean region. Since 2010, Hong De-Yuan has published a three-volume monograph on peonies as the main work. After the first two volumes, the final third volume should complete the work in the next few years (as of 2019). As the most important innovation in the conception of the taxonomy of the genus, many taxa previously listed as species are only synonymous by Hong. In particular, he has reduced the group of diploid or tetrapoloid peonies in the Caucasus, Iran, the Crimea, NW Turkey and the western Balkan peninsula from the previously described seven species to just one. As a result, horticultural valuable "species" are now subspecies of a single scientifically recognized species ( Paeonia daurica ). This applies, among other things, to the well-known yellow-flowered "Paeonia mlokosewitschii" (now Paeonia daurica ssp. Mlokosewitschii ). The reason for this view are the polymorphic characteristics of the group. This can be traced back to the reticulate evolution of the Caucasian peonies (and their subspecies on the Balkan Peninsula, Asia Minor and Iran) during the Ice Ages.

  • Monograph Paeonies of the Wolrd (3rd vol., Two of which appeared in 2010, 2012)

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  1. ^ CV Hong Deyuan
  2. ↑ T. Sang, J. Pan, D. Zhang, D. Ferguson, C. Wang, K.-Y. Pan, D.-Y. Hong: Origins of polyploids: an example from peonies (Paeonia) and a model for angiosperms. In: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. August 2004, Vol. 82, No. 4, pp. 561-571.

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personal data
SURNAME Hong, De-Yuan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 洪德 元 (Chinese); Hong, DYHong (Person)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese botanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1937