The 2nd Wu Zhengxuan Botany Award was announced

12, the 2nd Wu Zhengxuan Botany Award Ceremony was held in Chengdu. Zhou Jun, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the Kunming Institute of Plant Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award, su Tao, a researcher at the Xishuangbina Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Guo Yalong, a researcher at the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, were awarded the Youth Innovation Award. The award ceremony was presided over by Yang Yongping, Chairman of the Wu Zhengxuan Science Foundation,
, a member of the Chinese Academy of Phytosics and Chairman of the Chinese Botany Society, presented the award to the winners.
Zhou Jun engaged in plant chemistry research for more than 60 years, systematic research ginseng genus, potatogenus, hemp genus and other medicinal phytochemical components, found more than 550 new compounds, on the 37th, heavy building, hemp, potato The development and utilization of such resources has made great achievements, the development of new drugs such as tympphrine, miyagi ning and other new drugs, domestic potato sacin, autumn daffodils, 37 saponin and other pharmaceutical raw materials to promote the application, for the development of China's plant chemistry research cause to make outstanding contributions. Su Tao is engaged in research in paleo botany, paleoencological reconstruction and paleoeanthropology, and Guo Yalong focuses on the basic problems of evolutionary biology, taking the aphid mustard and its near-edge species as the research object, and applying multidisciplinary means to study the adaptive evolution mechanism of plants.
it is learned that the Wu Zhengxuan Botany Award is China's first botany professional award, the establishment of outstanding contribution award and youth innovation award, awarded every two years. The award aims to promote Wu Zhengxuan's rigorous discipline, selfless dedication and dedication to the scientific spirit of pursuit, and to reward plant science and technology workers who love botany, have made outstanding achievements and achieved important innovations in basic botany research, rational development and utilization of plant resources, biodiversity conservation and sustainable ecosystem development.