New Subject Editor in Chinese Vascular Plant Taxonomy

We would like to welcome Professor Bo LI, Ph.D., as Subject Editor for Chinese vascular plant taxonomy! He is the PI of the Plant Taxonomy and Conservation Research Group at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (XTBG). His research focuses on plant systematics, including phylogenetic reconstruction of families such as Polygonaceae and Lamiaceae, as well as the order Lamiales, to elucidate evolutionary relationships. He also works on the taxonomy of key resource plant species, contributing to the classification and conservation of plant diversity, particularly for economically and ecologically important species. He serves in multiple professional capacities, including as a committee member of the Systematics and Evolutionary Botany Professional Committee of the Chinese Botanical Society, the Wild Plant Conservation Expert Advisory Committee (National Forestry and Grassland Administration), the Red List Professional Committee of the China Wild Plant Conservation Association, and the IUCN Species Survival Commission. He is a life member of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy and the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. In addition, he holds editorial roles as Associate Editor for Integrative Conservation and Turkish Journal of Botany. He has authored over 83 peer-reviewed papers in international journals, including 51 as first or corresponding author.