Prof. Yin Yafang was assigned to the Editorial Board of The Research Institute of Wood Industry (IAWA) Journal (2010-2017) and the Chinese Wood science and technology, the International Editorial Board of Korean Wood Science and Technology Journal (since 2015) and Associate Editor of IAWA Journal (since 2019), and appointed as consultancies by the China CITES Management Authority and the China CITES Scientific Committee (since 2013) and the China National Association of Forest Products Industry (since 2014), Deputy of 5.00.00 and Coordinator of 5.16.00, Division 5 of International Union of Forest Reaearch Organizations (IUFRO), and Executive committee member of International Union of Biological Sciences.
The study on the anatomy of wood was extended to the macromolecular structure of cell wall, and the mechanism of influence of wood structure on its properties was revealed, which has important reference value for the functional improvement of low-quality wood. Prof. Yin Yafang carries out research on wood recognition methods based on DNA barcodes and computer vision. He broke through the technical bottlenecks of wood DNA enrichment extraction and visualization of wood structural features, achieved accurate extraction of wood cell DNA information and structural image features, and lay an important foundation for solving the scientific problems of wood "species" recognition.
Juan Guo, Maomao Zhang, Jian'an Liu, Rupeng Luo, Tingting Yan, Tao Yang, Xiaomei Jiang, Mengyu Dong, Yafang Yin*. Evaluation of the Deterioration State of Archaeological Wooden Artifacts: A Non-destructive Protocol based on Direct Analysis in Real Time–Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS) coupled to Chemometrics. Analytical Chemistry, 2020, DOI 10.1021/acs.analchem. 0c01429
Lichao Jiao, Yang Lu, Tuo He, Juan Guo, Yafang Yin*. DNA barcoding for wood identification: global review of the last decade and future perspective. IAWA Journal, 2020, DOI 10.1163/22941932-bja10041
Tuo He, Yang Lu, Lichao Jiao, Yonggang Zhang, Xiaomei Jiang, Yafang Yin*. Developing Deep Learning Models to Automate Rosewood Tree Species Identification for CITES Designation and Implementation. Holzforschung, 2020, DOI 10.1515/hf-2020-0006
Juan Guo, Lin Xiao, Liuyang Han, Hao Wu, Tao Yang, Shunqing Wu, Yafang Yin. Deterioration of cell wall in waterlogged wooden archaeological artifacts, 2400 years old. IAWA Journal, 2019, 40(4): 820-844.
Tuo He, Lichao Jiao, Alex Wiedenhoeft, Yafang Yin. Machine learning approaches outperform distance and tree-based methods for DNA barcoding of Pterocarpus wood. Planta, 2019, 249(5):1617-1625.
S Li, X Li, R Link, R Li, L Deng, B Schuldt, X Jiang, S Jansen, J Zheng, R Zhao, Y Yin*. Influence of cambial age and tree height on spatial patterns of xylem traits in Catalpa bungei, a ring-porous tree species native to China. Forests, 2019, 10(622):1-16
Lichao Jiao, Yang Lu, Tuo He, Jianing Li, Yafang Yin*. A strategy for developing high‑resolution DNA barcodes for species discrimination of wood specimens using the complete chloroplast genome of three Pterocarpus species, Planta, 2019, 250:95-104.
Maomao Zhang, Guangjie Zhao, Juan Guo, Alex C. Wiedenhoeft, Charles C. Liu, Yafang Yin*. Timber species identification from chemical fingerprints using direct analysis in real time (DART) coupled to Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FTICR-MS): comparison of wood samples subjected to different treatments. Holzforschung, 2019, 73(11): 975-985.
Lichao Jiao, Tuo He, Eleanor Dormontt, Yonggang Zhang, Andy Lowe, Yafang Yin*. Applicability of chloroplast DNA barcodes for wood identification between Santalum album and its adulterants. Holzforschung, 2019, 73(2): 209-218.
Maomao Zhang, Guangjie Zhao, Bo Liu, Tuo He, Juan Guo, Xiaomei Jiang, Yafang Yin*. Wood discrimination analyses of Pterocarpus tinctorius and endangered Pterocarpus santalinus using DART-FTICR-MS coupled with multivariate statistics. IAWA Journal, 2019, 40(1): 58-74.
