HUANG Hongwen
South China Botanical Garden/South China Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 723 Xingke Rd, Tian He District, Guangzhou, P.R. CHINA 510650
Ph: +86-20 3725 2778 • Email: huanghw@scbg.ac.cn • Website: www.scib.cas.cn
Present Position Professor
Recent Research Focus
● Plant ex situ conservation and inventory (project of Ex situ Cultivated Flora of China)
● Genus Actinidia Germplasm repository and evaluation and genetic improvement for new cultivar
development
● Plant conservation genetics
Education
1993 Ph.D. Plant Breeding and Horticulture, Auburn University, USA
1984 Master Degree, Horticulture, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
1979 Pomology, Huazhong Agricultural University, China
Editorial Experience
2014- Editor, Journal of Systematics and Evolution
2007- Editor and Honorary Editors-in-Chief, Plant diversity and Resources
2007- Chief Editor, Journal of Tropical and Subtropical Botany
2006- Editor, Guihaia,
2004- Editor, Journal of Fruit Science
1999- Editor, Chinese Bulletin of Botany
2005-2008 Associate editor, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
1997-2007 Chief Editor, Plant Science Journal,
1997-2005 Editor, Biodiversity Science
Work Experience
2015- Professor, South China Botanical Garden/South China Institute of Botany,
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2006-2015 Director and Professor, South China Botanical Garden/South China Institute of Botany,
Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1997-2007 Director and Professor, Wuhan Botanical Garden/Wuhan Institute of Botany, Chinese
Academy of Sciences.
1994-1997 Assistant director, Associate Professor, Professor, Wuhan Botanical Garden/Wuhan Institute
of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1979-1990 Research assistant, Assistant Professor, Department head, Fruit and Tea Institute of Hubei
Academy of Agricultural Science.
Honors/Awards
2015 Provincial Science & Technology Progress Award, First place (Hubei province, China)
2013 Provincial Science & Technology Progress Award, second place (Hubei province, China)
2013 Municipal Science & Technology Progress Award, First place (Wuhan City, China)
2012 National outstanding Scientific and technological worker, China (China association for science and technology)
2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, ISHS Kiwifruit Group
2007 Provincial Science & Technology Progress Award, First place (Hubei province, China)
2006 Top-Ten Science and Technology Innovative Achievements(2001-2005, Innovative
Wuhan) (Wuhan City)
2005 National Model Worker Recognition (State Council of P. R. China)
2004 New Centurial State-level Personnel Recognition (Ministry of Personnel)
2002 Provincial Science & Technology Progress Award, second place (Hubei province, China)
2001 National Science & Technology Progress Award (2nd place) of China (State Council of P. R. China)
2001 Model Worker Recognition(Ministry of Personnel and Chinese Academy of Sciences)
2001 Outstanding Researcher Recognition of Agricultural Science and Technology of Hubei
Province (Hubei province, China)
1998 Science & Technology Progress Award (2nd place) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
1997 Outstanding Contribution Award (Zhen Hua and Wang-Yi-Xi Science and Technology Alleviating Poverty Award Foundation)
1990 Provincial Science & Technology Progress Award, second place (Hubei province, China)
1989 Excellent Youth Scientist Recognition (Hubei province, China)
Publications
Books
2016 R. Testolin, Hongwen Huang, R. Ferguson eds. The Kiwifruit Genome. Springer
2016 Hung Hongwen ed. Kiwifruit, the Genus Actinidia. ELSEVIER, Science Press, Beijing.
2016 Huang Hongwen ed. Ex Situ Cultivated Flora of China- Magnoliaceae by Yang etc. Science Press, Beijing.
2016 Huang Hongwen ed. Encyclopedia of Chinese Garden Flora-12. Science Press, Beijing.
2016 Huang Hongwen ed. Encyclopedia of Chinese Garden Flora-3. Science Press, Beijing.
2015 Huang Hongwen ed. Encyclopedia of Chinese Garden Flora-11. Science Press, Beijing.
2015 Huang Hongwen ed. Encyclopedia of Chinese Garden Flora-6. Science Press, Beijing.
2015 Huang Hongwen ed. Encyclopedia of Chinese Garden Flora-1. Science Press, Beijing.
2014 Huang Hongwen ed. Checklist of Ex Situ Cultivated Flora of China. Science Press, Beijing.
2014 Huang Hongwen ect. The Genus Actinidia, a World Monograph. Science Press, Beijing.
2013 Huang Hongwen etc. Actinidia: taxonomy, germplasm, domestication and cultivation. Science Press, Beijing.
2013 Huang Hongwen ed. Actinidia Germplasm Resources in China. China Forestry Publishing house,
Beijing.
2011 Huang Hongwen ed. Advances in Actinidia Research-VI. Science Press, Beijing.
2009 Qin Ling and Huang Hongwen (eds). Proceedings of the Fourth International Chestnut
Symposium, Acta Hort 844, ISHS Press, Belgium.
2010 Huang Hongwen ed. Advances in Actinidia Research-V. Science Press, Beijing.
2007 Huang Hongwen ed. Advances in Actinidia Research-IV. Science Press, Beijing.
2005 Huang Hongwen ed. Advances in Actinidia Research-III. Science Press, Beijing.
2005 Huang Hongwen, Kang Ming translated. Introduction to Conservation Genetics (Chinese version) by R. Frankhan, J.D. Ballou and D.A. Briscoe. Science Press, Beijing.
2003 Huang Hongwen ed. Advances in Actinidia Research-II. Science Press, Beijing.
2003 Hongwen Huang (ed). Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Kiwifruit, Acta Hort.
610, ISHS Press, Belgium.
2002 CUI Zhixue, HUANG Hongwen and XIAO Xingguo eds. Actinidia In China. China Agri. Sci & Tech. Press, Beijing.
2001 Huang Hongwe ed. Kiwifruit culure. Jindun Press, Beijing.
2000 Huang Hongwen ed. Advances in Actinidia Research. Science Press, Beijing.
Chapers
2016 Hongwen Huang. Chaper2/Genetic resources. In: The Kiwifruit Genome (R. Testolin, Hongwen
Huang, R. Ferguson eds) Springer 2016, Switzerland, pp15-36.
2016 Ross Ferguson and Hongwen Huang. Chapter3/World economic importance. In: The Kiwifruit
Genome (R. Testolin, Hongwen Huang, R. Ferguson eds) Springer 2016, Switzerland, pp37-42.
2016 Xiaohong Yao and Hongwen Huang. Chaper4/Cytoplasmic DNA in Actinidia. In: The Kiwifruit
Genome (R. Testolin, Hongwen Huang, R. Ferguson eds) Springer 2016, Switzerland, pp43-54.
2013 HUANG Hong-Wen, Sara Oldfield and Hong Qian. Chapter 2/Global significance of plant
diversity in China. In: Plants of China (HONG De-Yuan and Stephen Blackmore, eds.) Science Press 2013, Beijing, pp7-34.
2013 HUANG Hong-Wen and Sara Oldfield. Chapter 22/The extinction crisis. In: Plants of China
(HONG De-Yuan and Stephen Blackmore, eds.) Science Press 2013, Beijing, pp407-417.
2013 HUANG Hong-Wen, Peter Wyse Jackson and CHEN Ling-Zhi. Chapter 23/Conservation
Strategies. In: Plants of China (HONG De-Yuan and Stephen Blackmore, eds.) Science Press 2013, Beijing, pp418-445.
2013 HUANG Hong-Wen. Chapter 24/Prospects for future. In: Plants of China (HONG De-Yuan
and Stephen Blackmore, eds.) Science Press 2013, Beijing, pp446-452.
2008 Hongwen Huang, Zhongping Cheng, Zhonghui Zhang and Ying Wang. Chapter 2- History
of Cultivation and Trends in China. In: The Peach. Botany, Production and Uses (Layne D.R and Bassi D., eds.) CAB International 2008, London, pp 37-60.
2007 Hongwen Huang and A. Ross Ferguson. Genetic Resources of Kiwifruit: Domestication and
Breeding. In: Horticultural Reviews 33 (Janick J. ed.) John Wily & Sons Inc., New Jersey, 2007, pp. 1-122.
Papers
Selected papers (*=correspondence author)
(Total Scientific Journal Articles: >200, Conference Papers: >20. Books: 14 edited books, Book chapters: 6.)
Qiong Zhang, Chunyan Liu, Yifei Liu, Robert VanBuren, Xiaohong Yao, Caihong Zhong and Hongwen
Huang1*. High-density interspecific genetic maps of kiwifruit and the identification of sex-specific
markers. DNA Research, 2015, 1–9
Ming Kang, Junjie Tao, Jing Wang, Chen Ren, Qingwen Qi, Qiuyun Xiang and Hongwen Huang*.
2014. Adaptive and nonadaptive genome size evolution in Karst endemic flora of China. New Phytologist, 202: 1371–1381
Dawai Li, Xiaoqiong Qi, Xinwei Li, Li Li, Caihong Zhong, Hongwen Huang*. 2013. Maternal
inheritance of mitochondrial genomes and complex inheritance of chloroplast genomes in Actinidia Lind.: evidences from interspecific crosses. Molecular Genomics and Genetics, 288: 101-110.
Hongwen Huang*, Zheng Zhang. 2012. Current status and prospects of ex situ cultivation and conservation
of plants in China. Biodiversity Science (in Chinese), 20: 559-571.
Hongewen Huang*. 2011. Plant diversity and conservation in China: planning a strategic
bioresource for a sustainable future. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 166(3): 282-300.
Li Li, Xiaohong Yao, Caihong Zhong, Xuchong Chen and Hongwen Huang*. 2010. Akebia: A
potential new fruit crop in China. HortScience 45(1):4-10. (Feature paper with cover)
Yifei Liu, Yaling Liu, Hongwen Huang*. 2010. Genetic variation and natural hybridization among
sympatric Actinidia species and the implications for introgression breeding of kiwifruit. Tree Genetics & Genomics 6(5): 801-813.
Jin-Ju Zhang, Qi-Gang Ye, Xiao-Hong Yao*, Hong-Wen Huang*. 2010. Spontaneous interspecific
hybridization and patterns of pollen dispersal in ex situ populations of a tree species (Sinojackia xylocarpa) that is extinct in the wild. Conservation Biology 24(1): 246-255.
Yifei Liu, Yong Wang, Hongwen Huang*. 2009. Species-level phylogeographical history of
Myricaria plants in the mountain ranges of western China and the origin of M. laxiflora in the Three Gorges mountain region. Molecular Ecology 18(12): 2700-2712.
Jing Wang, Puxin Gao, Ming Kang*, Andrew J. Lowe, Hongwen Huang*. 2009. Refugia within
refugia: the case study of a canopy tree (Eurycorymbus cavaleriei) in subtropical China. Journal of Biogeography 36(11): 2156-2164.
Huang Hongwen*. 2009. History of 100 Years of Domestication and Improvement of Kiwifruit and Gene
Discovery from Genetic Introgressed Populations in the Wild. Chinese Bulletin of Botany: 44 (2): 127-142。
Ming Kang, Jing Wang, Hongwen Huang*. 2008. Demographic bottlenecks and low gene flow in
remnant populations of the critically endangered Berchemiella wilsonii var. pubipetiolata (Rhamnaceae) inferred from microsatellite markers. Conservation Genetics 9 (1):191-199.
Jiangqing Ding, Richard N. Mark, Ping Lu, Mingxun Ren and Hongwen Huang*. 2009. China’s
booming economy is sparking and accelerating biological invasions. BioScience 58 (4): 317-323.
Liu Yaling, Li Zuozhou, Jiang Zhengwang, Liu Yifei, Huang Hongwen*. 2008. Genetic structure and
hybridization introgression in natural populations of two closely related Actindia species, A. chinensis and A. deliciosa. Journal of Plant Ecology (Chinese version): 32(3):704-718。
Xiao-hong Yao, Qigang Ye, Ming Kang, Hongwen Huang* 2007. Microsatellites analysis reveals
interpopulation differention and gene flow in endangered tree Changiostyrax dolichocarpa (Styracaceae) with fragmented distribution in central China. New Phytologist 176: 472-480.
Kang M, Xu F, Lowe A, Huang Hongwen* 2007. Protecting evolutionary significant units for the
remnant populations of Berchemiella wilsonii var. pubipetiolata (Rhamnaceae). Conservation Genetics 8: 465-473.
Tian Zhang, Zuozhou Li, Yaling Liu, Zhengwang Jiang, Hongwen Huang. 2007. Genetic diversity, gene
introgression and homoplasy in sympatric populations of the genus Actinidia as revealed by chloroplast microsatellite markers. Biodiversity Science (in Chinese), 15(1): 1-22。
Liu YF., Wang Y., Huang HW*. 2006. High interpopulation differentiation and unidirectional
linear migration patterns in Myricaria laxiflora (Tamaricaceae), an emdemic riparian plant in the three gorges valley of the Yangtze River. Am J. Bot. 93:206-215.
Qi-Gang YE, Xiao-Hong YAO, Sheng-Ju ZHANG, Ming KANG, Hong-Wen HUANG*. 2006.
Potential risks of hybridization in ex situ collections of two endangered species of Sinojackia Hu (Styracaceae). Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 48: 867–872.
Wang Ying, Kang Ming, Huang Hongwen*. 2006. Subpopulation genetic structure in a panmictic
population as revealed by molecular markers: a case study of Castanea sequinii using SSR markers. Journal of Plant Ecology (Chinese version):30(1): 147-156.
Kang M, Ye QG, Huang HW*. 2005. Genetic Consequence of Restricted Habitat and Population
Decline in Endangered Isoetes sinensis (Isoetaceae). Annals of Botany, 96: 1265-1274.
Huang, HW., Y. Wang, ZH. Zhang, ZW. Jiang and SM. Wang. 2004. Actinidia germplasm
resources and kiwifruit industry in China. HortScience 39(6):1165-1172 (cover story).
Huang HW., Desmond R. Layne, and Thomas L. Kubisiak. 2003. Molecular characterization of
cultivated pawpaw (Asimina triloba) using RAPD markers. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 128(1): 85-93.
H. Huang, X. Han, and L. Kang*, etc. 2002. Conserving native plants in China. Science.
297:935-936.
Huang, H., D. R. Layne and T. L. Kubisiak. 2000. RAPD inheritance and diversity in pawpaw
(Asimina triloba). J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 125(4):454-459.
Huang HW., F. Dane, T. L. Kubisiak. 1998. Allozyme and RAPD analysis of the genetic diversity
and geographic variation in wild populations of the American chestnut (Fagaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 85(7):1013-1021.
Huang HW., F. Dane, Z. Wang, Z, Jiang, R. Huang, and S. Wang. 1997. Isozyme inheritance and
variation in Actinidia. Heredity 78:328-336.
Huang HW., W. A. Carey, F. Dane, and J. D. Norton. 1996. Evaluation of Chinese chestnut
cultivars for resistance to Cryphonectrica parasitica. Plant Disease 80:45-47.
Huang H., F. Dane and J.D. Norton. 1994. Allozyme diversity in Chinese, Seguin and American
chestnut (Castanea spp.). Theor. Appl. Genet. 88:981-985.
Huang HW., J.D. Norton, G.E. Boyhan, and B.R.Abrahams. 1994. Graft compatibility among
chestnut (Castanea) species. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 119(6): 1127-1132.
Huang HW., F. Dane and J.D. Norton. 1994. Genetic analysis of 11 polymorphic isozyme loci in
chestnut species and characterization of chestnut cultivars by multi-locus allozyme genotypes. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 119(4):840-849.
Huang Hongwen, Zhang Litian, Lu Ying, Zhou Deyong, Zhu Zhi and Wang Qingyi. 1991. Effect of
phosphorus on pistillate formation, fruiting character and yields of Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima). Acta Horticulturae Sinica (in Chinese), 18(1):21-26。
Huang Hongwen, Zhang Litian, Gong Junjie, Qing Zhongqi. 1989. Selection and breeding of A. chinensis
new variety “Jinyang No 1” and “Jinnong No 1”. Fruit Science (in Chinese), 6(1): 52-56.
Key Recently Featured Lectures
2016 The 2016 National Congress of Plant Biology, Invited Plenary Speaker, Oct. 9-12, 2017, Wuhan
2013 The 12th National Congress & Annual Academic Conference of Chinese Society for
Horticultural Science, Invited Plenary Speaker, Oct. 22-22, 2013, Chengdu.
2012 12th Conference of International Association of Botanical Gardens, Plenary Speaker,
November 13-15, 2012, Guangzhou.
2011 The Conference of the 2th CNC-Diversitas committee & 5th CAS-Diversitas committee, Invited
Speaker, March, 30, 2011, Beijing.
2010 Science and development of government policy post-Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: lessons for the future?, Invited Speaker, June 21-22, 2010, Royal Society and Kew Garden, London.
2009 Plant conservation for the next decade: a celebration of Kew’s 250th anniversary, Invited Speaker, October 12-16, 2009, London.
2008 The 15th National Congress and 75th Anniversary Conference of Botanical Society of China, Invited Plenary Speaker, July 12-16, 2008, Lanzhou.
2007 CBD-Sbstta-12, invited Speaker, July 2-6, 2007, Paris.
04-10 2th, 3rd, 4th Global Botanic Gardens Congress, Plenary Speaker, 2004 (Barcelona, Spain), 2007 (Wuhan, China), 2010 (Dublin, Ireland).
02-14 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th International kiwifruit Symposium, 2002 (Wuhan, China), 2006 (Rotorua, New Zealand), 2010 (Faenza, Italy), 2014 (Dujiangyan, China), Keynote speaker.
Professional Societies & Associations
2013- Vice President, Botanical Society of China (BSC)
2012- General Secretary, International Association of Botanic Gardens (IABG)
2012- Vice President, Chinese Union of Botanical Gardens (CUBG)
2010-2014 Chairman, Kiwifruit Working Group, International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
2010- President, Guangdong Provincial Botanical Society
2005- General Coordinator, East Asian Botanical Garden Network (EABGN)
2004- Board member, CNC-Diversitas and CAS-Diversitas
2002-2016 Chairman, Actinidia (Kiwifruit) Section, Chinese Society for Horticultural Science
2005-2011 Chairman, Botanical Garden Working Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
2002-2010 Vice Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, Botanical Garden Network, CAS
1999-2002 Chairman, Kiwifruit Working Group, International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS)
1998-2008 Chairman, Hubei Provincial Botanical Society
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