Focuses on phylogeny, taxonomy and evolution of higher fungi (mushrooms).

The main research groups are concentrated in Amanitaceae, Tricholomatineae and Hydnangiaceae.

   

1.        Cui YY, Ding XX, Kost G, Yang ZL*. 2022. Tricholoma sect. Tricholoma (Tricholomataceae) from China: molecular phylogeny and taxonomy. Mycological Progress 21:35.

2.        Cui YY, Cai Q, Li J, Yang ZL*. 2021.Two new Laccaria species from China based on molecular and morphological evidence. Mycological Progress 20: 567–576.

3.        Cui YY, Cai Q, Yang ZL*. 2021. Amanita chuformis, a new Amanita species with a marginate basal bulb. Mycoscience 62: 29–35.

4.        Cui YY, Cai Q, Tang LP, Liu JW, Yang ZL*. 2018. The family Amanitaceae: molecular phylogeny, higher–rank taxonomy and the species in China. Fungal Diversity 91: 5–230.

5.        Cui YY, Feng B, Wu G, Xu J, Yang ZL*. 2016. Porcini mushrooms (Boletus sect. Boletus) from China. Fungal Diversity 81: 189–212.

6.        Ding XX, Xu X, Cui YY, Kost G, Wang PM, Yang ZL*. 2023. A fifty-locus phylogenetic analysis provides deep insights into the phylogeny of Tricholoma (Tricholomataceae, Agaricales). Persoonia 50: 1–26.

7.        Ding XX, Cui YY, Yang ZL*. 2022. Two new species of Tricholoma sect. Genuina (Agaricales) from China based on molecular phylogenetic and morphological evidence. Mycological Progress 21:37.

8.        Su YT, Cai Q, Qin WQ, Cui YY, Chen ZH*, Yang ZL*. 2022. Two new species of Amanita section Amanita from Central China. Mycological Progress 21: 78.

9.        Xu X, Cui YY, Yang ZL. 2020. Two new species of Tricholoma sect. Genuina (Agaricales) from China. Phytotaxa 443: 155–166.

10.    Liu XB, Xia EH, Li M, Cui YY, Wang PM, Zhang JX, Xie BG, Xu JP, Yan JJ, Li J, Nagy LG, Yang ZL*. 2020. Transcriptome data reveal conserved patterns of fruiting body development and response to heat stress in the mushroom-forming fungus Flammulina filiformis. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0239890.

11.    Yang ZL*, Cai Q, Cui YY. 2018. Phylogeny, diversity and morphological evolution of Amanitaceae. Biosystematics and Ecology Series 34: 359–380.

12.    Liu JW, Cai Q, Cui YY, Yang ZL*. 2017. Amanita cingulata, a new annulate species of Amanita sect. Vaginatae from subtropical China. Phytotaxa 326: 41–53.

13.    Cai Q, Cui YY, Yang ZL*. 2016. Lethal Amanita species in China. Mycologia 108: 993–1009.

14.    Wu G, Li YC, Zhu XT, Zhao K, Han LH, Cui YY, Li F, Xu J, Yang ZL*. 2016. One hundred noteworthy boletes from China. Fungal Diversity 81: 25–188.

15.    Li YC, Li F, Zeng NK, Cui YY, Yang ZL*. 2014. A new genus Pseudoaustroboletus (Boletaceae, Boletales) from Asia as inferred from molecular and morphological data. Mycological Progress 13: 1207–1216.

2022 Yunnan Revitalization Talent Support Program "Young Talent"

2021 Excellent doctoral dissertation of Yunnan Province

2020 Excellent doctoral dissertation of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2019 Outstanding graduate of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2018 National Scholarship for doctoral Students of Ministry of Education

2018 Tai Fung-Lan Outstanding Graduate Student Award of Chinese Mycological Society

2016 National Scholarship for doctoral Students of Ministry of Education