It’s announced by the People’s Government of Yunnan Province that Prof. Zhang Ling of XTBG is among one of the winners who were awarded with the special provincial government allowance of 2012. The allowance is awarded in recognition of her academic achievement and outstanding contribution to tropical botanical studies.

Prof. Zhang Lingstudies the phylogeography and reproductive biology of Taccaceae and Zingiberaceae plants. Her research focuses on the sytematics and evolution of reproductive traits, the adaptive radiation and evolution of morphological traits, and the reproductive biology and population genetics structure in Tacca. By comparing the morphological traits and population genetics structure, they are now attempting to use DNA barcoding and the indagation of geographic distribution to understand the trends in ecology and evolution of these two plants.