Zhong-Lai Luo, South China Botanical Garden, CAS
Email: luozhongl@scbg.ac.cn
Telephone: 02037087417
Address: 天河区兴科路723
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Research Areas
Evolutionary Biology
Plant Genomics
Plant Molecular Biology
Pollination Ecology
Experience
Work Experience
June, 2011 – Present, Associate professor, Plant Science Center, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
May, 2013 – April, 2014, Visiting Scholar, Laboratory of Tissue Development and Regeneration, University of Southern California
July, 2008 – May, 2011, Assistant professor, Plant Science Center, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publications
Papers
Yuan-Qing Xu, Zhong-Lai Luo*, Jia Wang, Nan-Cai Pei, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2021. Secondary pollen presentation: more than to increase pollen transfer precision. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/jse.12729. (published online 1st Feb. 2021).
Zhong-Tao Zhao, Zhong-Lai Luo*, Shuai Yuan, Li-Na Mei, Dian-Xiang Zhang*. 2019. Global transcriptome and gene co-expression network analyses on the development of distyly in Primula oreodoxa. Heredity, 123: 784-794.
Wei-Ling Chang, Hao Wu, Yu-Kun Chiu, Shuo Wang, Ting-Xin Jiang, Zhong-Lai Luo, … …, Cheng-Ming Chuong*. 2019. The making of a flight feather: Bio-architectural principles and adaptation. Cell, 179(6): 1409-1423.
Zhong-Lai Luo, Jin Hu, Zhong-Tao Zhao, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2016. Transcriptomic analysis of heteromorphic stamens in Cassia biscapsularis L.Scientific Reports, 6, doi:10.1038/srep31600.
Yuanqing Xu†, Zhonglai Luo†*, Shaoxiong Gao, Dianxiang Zhang*. 2018. Why heterostylous system in Guettarda speciosa can persist on oceanic coral islands following long-distance dispersal. Scientific Reports, 8: 13765.
Shuai Yuan, Shi Chen, Xiao-Fang Deng, Ting-Ting Duan, Zhonglai Luo*, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2017. Pollen-ovule ratios are strongly correlated with floral reciprocity in addition to sexual system in Mussaenda (Rubiaceae). Nordic Journal of Botany, doi: 10.1111/njb.01479.
Zhong-Lai Luo, Ting-Ting Duan, Shuai Yuan, Shi Chen, Xiu-Feng Bai, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2015. Reproductive isolation between sympatric sister species, Mussaenda kwangtungensis and M. pubescens var. alba. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 57(10): 859–870.
Zhong-Lai Luo, Shi Chen, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2012. Floral reward presentation favored the expression of male function in the pollen-only flowerMelastoma malabathricum. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 55(6): 488-495.
Zhong-Lai Luo, Lei Gu, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2009. Intrafloral Differentiation of stamens in heterantherous flowers. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 47 (1): 43-56.
Zhong-Lai Luo, Dian-Xiang Zhang, Susanne S. Renner. 2008. Why two kinds of stamens in buzz-pollinated flowers? Experimental support for Darwin’s division-of-labor hypothesis. Functional Ecology,22: 794-800.
Shi Chen†, Zhong-Lai Luo†, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2014. Pre- and post-zygotic reproductive isolation between co-occurring Mussaenda pubescensvar. alba and M. shikokiana(Rubiaceae).Journal of Integrative Plant Biology,56(4): 411-419.
Shi Chen†, Zhong-Lai Luo†, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2013. Self-pollination in buds and homostyly in Mussaenda shikokiana(Rubiaceae), a monomorphic species in a distylous clade. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 51(6): 731-742.
Pei-Wu Xie, Zhong-Lai Luo, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2012. Syrphid fly pollination of Guihaiothamnus acaulis(Rubiaceae), a species with “butterfly” flowers. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 51(1) : 86-93.
Yan Liu, Zhong-Lai Luo, Xiao-Qin Wu, Xiu-Feng Bai, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2012. Functional dioecy in Morinda parvifolia (Rubiaceae), a species with stigma-height dimorphism. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 298(4): 775-785.
Nan-Cai Pei, Zhong-Lai Luo, Mark A. Schlessman, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2011. Synchronized protandry and hermaphroditism in a tropical secondary forest tree, Schefflera heptaphylla (Araliaceae).Plant Systematics and Evolution, 296: 29-39.
Lei Gu, Zhong-Lai Luo, Susanne S. Renner, Dian-Xiang Zhang. 2010. Passerine pollination ofRhodoleia championii (Hamamelidaceae) in southern China. Biotropica, 42(3): 336-341.