Companion Volume to Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan - Province of Chin

Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms of Yunnan Province of China, continues the systematical introduction of the plant morphological characteristics, medicinal history, resource situation, traditional uses, ethnopharmacology, phytochemicals, pharmacological effects, biosynthesis, and sustainable utilization of medicinal plants

List of contents

1. Yunnan Aucklandia cestus Falc. ..................................................................................
Hui-Ying Liu, Yunheng Ji, Hai-Yang Liu*, and Xin Fang*
2. Polygonatum kingianum Collett & Hemsl.: Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Application.....................................................................................................................
Yan-Xi Li, Long-Gao Xiao, Xiao-Rong Guo*, and Hai-Yang Liu*
3. Yunnan Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diels.........................................................................
Yan Zhao*, Sheng-Chao Yang, Khadija Tehseen Arshad, Juan Wang, Pin-Han Zhou, and Chao-Hui Li
4. Traditional Uses, Chemistry, Bioactivity of Salvia yunnanensis C. H. Wright..........
Rui-Qi Liu, Xin-Rong Xiang, Yunheng Ji*, and Xin Fang*
5. Paris Species in Yunnan Province................................................................................
Shan-Shan Ling, Wei Ni, Huan Yan, Xin Fang, Yunheng Ji*, and Hai-Yang Liu*
6. Panax japonicus complex..............................................................................................
Mei-Ru Wang, Jia-Xin Huang, Hai-Yang Liu*, and Yunheng Ji*
7. Amomi Fructus: Resources, Traditional Application, Phytochemicals, and Pharmacological Activities...........................................................................................
Rui Dong and Chang-An Geng*
8. Botany, Traditional Application, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology of Amomum tsaoko.............................................................................................................
Xiao-Lu Qin and Chang-An Geng*
9. Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, Pharmacology, and Toxicology of the "Heartbreak Grass" Gelsemium elegans (Gardner & Champ.) Benth. ....................
Sheng Li and Yu Zhang*
10. Tranditional Utilization, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacology of Origanum vulgare L. .......................................................................................................................
Xue-Yu Yang, Yunheng Ji*, and Hai-Yang Liu*
11. Gentiana rigescens Franch. ex Hemsl. .........................................................................
Jia-Huan Shang, Na Li, Rong Fan, Hong-Tao Zhu, and Ying-Jun Zhang*
12. Phyllanthus emblica Linn. ............................................................................................
Na Li, Jia-Huan Shang, Hong-Tao Zhu, and Ying-Jun Zhang*
13. Botany, Chemistry, Bioactivity, and Biogeography of Spiraea japonica Complex (Rosaceae) .....................................................................................................................
Qian Zhao and Xiao-Jiang Hao*
14. Tripterygium hypoglaucum (H. L¿ev.) Hutch...............................................................
Shi-Li Wu, Duo-Zhi Chen, and Xiao-Jiang Hao*
15. Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemistry, and Biological Activity of Daphniphyllum Species............................................................................................................................
Li-Li Xu and Xiao-Jiang Hao*
16. Five Popular Wild Edible Mushrooms in Yunnan: Tricholoma matsutake, Boletus edulis, Thelephora ganbajun, Sarcodon imbricatus, and Russula virescens...............
Hui Liu, Yan-Xi Li, Mei-Ru Wang, Wei Ni, HuanYan, Hai-Yang Liu*
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Yunheng Ji*, Hai-Yang Liu, Xin Fang, Chenjin Yang

About the author

Hai-Yang Liu
Dr. Haiyang Liu is a professor at State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines, Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He finished his Bachelor's degree in Applied Chemistry (1994) at Sichuan University (Chengdu University of Science and Technology). Then, he received his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry in 2005 from Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. After graduation, he worked in the State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines of KIB, CAS and as a visiting scholar at University of Mississippi in 2014. He was promoted to Full Professor (2014). His research interests include: (1) the discovery and mechanisms of novel and bioactive natural products from traditional Chinese medicine and medicinal plants (with emphasis on the genera Paris, Ypsilandra, Chloranthus, etc., and the family Myrtaceae) and the R&D of innovative drugs; (2) the sustainable utilization of medicinal plant resources. He has published more than 150 articles, including those published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Food Chemistry, Organic Letters, European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Natural Products, ect. He also serves as the Editorial Board members of various journals including Food Science and Human Wellness, Fitoterapia, Natural Products and Bioprospecting.
Yunheng Ji
Dr. Yunheng Ji is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines, and the CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He is an expert in the monocotyledonous families, Asparagaceae and Melanthiaceae, as well as aquatic angiosperms. His research focuses on the evolution, conservation, and sustainable utilization of economically important, endemic, and endangered ("3E") plant taxa, involving in molecular phylogenetics, evolutionary and functional genomics, biogeography, plant taxonomy, and population genetics. He currently serves as the Editorial Board members of journals "BMC Plant Biology" and "Frontiers in Genetics". He has authored more than 60 peer reviewed research publications in well reputed scientific journals, and the book entitled "A Monograph of Paris (Melanthiaceae)" was published by Springer & Nature in 2021.
Xig Fang
Dr. Xing Fang is a professor at State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Natural Medicines, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. By comprehensively utilizing techniques such as molecular biology, biochemistry, and phytochemistry, his research focuses on the study of novel structural active secondary metabolites in plants, using phytochemical methods to discover new structurally active natural products, and employing genomics, transcriptomics, enzymology, and other methods to analyze the biological metabolic pathways and enzymatic mechanisms of highly active metabolites. He has published more than 70 articles, including those published in Nat. Chem. Biol., Nat. Plants, Nat. Commun. PNAS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Mol. Plant, ect.

Product details

• Authors: Hai-Yang Ji Liu
• Assisted by: Xin Fang (Editor), Fang Xin (Editor), Yunheng Ji (Editor), Hai-Yang Liu (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 23.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032782850
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3278285-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Natural Products Chemistry of Global Plants
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Pharmacy; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, SCIENCE / Chemistry / Organic, SCIENCE / Biotechnology, MEDICAL / Nursing / Pharmacology, chemistry, Pharmacology, Botany & plant sciences, Botany and plant sciences