Yi Li Keng Explained

Yi-Li Keng (Gěng Yi-Li; 1897, Nanjing – 1975) was a Chinese botanist, specializing in the study of grasses (the family Poaceae), particularly the tribe Triticeae of the Poaceae.[1]

Yi-Li Keng graduated in 1927 with B.Sc. from Nanjing University (called at that time National Southeastern University).[2] After graduation, he collected plants in Zhejiang Province with Hsen-Hsu Hu and Sung-Shu Chien.[3] At George Washington University Keng graduated with A.M. in 1932 and Ph.D. in 1933.[2]

In 1934 he became a professor and researcher at Nanjing University (called at that time Central National University) and at the Institute of Zoology and Botany, Academia Sinica.[4] He retained his professorship for the remainder of his career,[3] including the war years when Nanjing University's academic staff evacuated Nanjing.[4]

In order to collect seeds of pasture grasses, he joined, during July and August 1935, the Roerich Expedition to Inner Mongolia. During the expedition, seeds were collected from about 50 different species of grasses, and Keng published descriptions of 6 of the species as new to science.[5] [4]

His son, Pai-Chieh Keng (b. 1917), also became a botanist and the two of them jointly published several works.

Keng's work in describing grasses in China was incorporated into the Chinese-language Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, an effort to complete the Flora of China.[6] An English translation and update of the Poaceae chapter was released in 2007.[7]

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Selected publications

References

  1. Li. Hui-Lin. Papers on the Exploration of China. 5. Botantical Exploration in China during the Last Twenty-five Years. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 156. 1. 1944. 25–44. 0370-0461. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1944.tb00371_8.x.
  2. Book: John Hendley Barnhart

    . Barnhart, John Hendley. John Hendley Barnhart. Biographical Notes Upon Botanists. 2. 281. 1965. G. K. Hall.

  3. Web site: Keng, Yi-Li. JSTOR Global Plants.
  4. Book: Hong, De-Yuan. Blackmore, Stephen. Chapter 13. History of Chinese Botanical Institutions by Hu Zong-Gong, Ma Hai-Ying, Ma Jing-Shuang and Hong De-Yuan. The Plants of China. https://books.google.com/books?id=91e3BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA249. 23 April 2015. Cambridge University Press. 237–255. 978-1-107-07017-2. (See p. 249.)
  5. 24529787. New grasses from Peiling Miao, Suiyuan Province, China. Keng. Y. L.. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 1938. 28. 7. 298–308.
  6. Ma . Jinshuang . Clemants . Steve . 2006 . A History and Overview of the Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae (FRPS, Flora of China, Chinese Edition, 1959-2004) . Taxon . 55 . 2 . 451–460 . 10.2307/25065592 . 25065592 . 0040-0262.
  7. Jacobs . Surrey W. L. . 2007-04-02 . Flora of China, volume 22, Poaceae (text) [review] . Systematic Biology . 56 . 2 . 365–367 . 10.1080/10635150701325586. free .
  8. 10.1139/b90-248. Kengyilia gobicola, a new taxon from west China. 1990. Yen. Chi. Yang. Jun-Liang. Canadian Journal of Botany. 68. 9. 1894–1897.
  9. Kwan-hou Keng is a previous name for Pai-Chieh Keng. See Book: Mabberley, D. J.. The Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants. 2nd. 19 June 1997. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-41421-0. 832.

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