Winners of the First Wu Zhengyi Botany Awards Announced at the 19th International Botanical Congress (IBC) in Shenzhen, China

SHENZHEN, China, July 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Winners of the first Wu Zhengyi Botany Awards were announced at the 19^th International Botanical Congress (IBC), held at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center on July 25. Hong Deyuan, a researcher of the Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, won the Outstanding Contribution Award; Gao Lianming, a researcher of Kunming Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Kong Hongzhi, a researcher of the Institute of Botany of Chinese Academy of Sciences, both won the Youth Innovation Award. The awards were jointly set by the Botanical Society of China and Yunnan Wu Zhengyi Science Foundation on July 12, 2016 and funded by LotionSPA (DR PLANT).