Education：

　　Sep. 2006–Jul. 2011 Ph.D. (Botany), Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

　　Sep. 2002–Jul. 2006 B.Sc., Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China

　　Positions：

　　Dec. 2015–May 2016 Visiting researcher, Missouri Botanical Garden

    Dec. 2013–Present Associate Professor, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Jul. 2011–Nov. 2013 Postdoctoral fellow, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

　　Plant systematics, molecular evolution and adaption, with strong emphasis on the legume family

　　Biodiversity survey, cataloging and assessment of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Hengduan Mountains;

　　Membership： Red List Committee of Chinese Plants

　　the Wang Kuancheng Postdoctoral Award Fund Grant

　　 Huai-Cheng Li, Xue-Li Zhao, Xin-Fen Gao*, Bo Xu*, 2019. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Hylodesmum (Fabaceae). Phytotaxa 403 (3): 221–229.

　　 Truong Van Do, Bo Xu, Xin-Fen Gao*, 2019. A new species and new records of Flemingia (Fabaceae) from Vietnam. Ann. Bot. Fennici 56: 41–48.

　　 Bo Xu, Xiao-Mao Zeng, Xin-Fen Gao, Dong-Pil Jin, and Li-Bing Zhang, 2017. ITS non-concerted evolution and rampant hybridization in the legume genus Lespedeza (Fabaceae). Scientific Reports 7: 40057.

　　 Xue-Li Zhao, Xin-Fen Gao, Zhang-Ming Zhu, Yun-Dong Gao, Bo Xu, 2017. The demographic response of a deciduous shrub (the Indigofera bungeana complex, Fabaceae) to the Pleistocene climate changes in East Asia. Scientific Reports 7: 697.

　　 Meng Li, Tetsuo Ohi-Toma, Yun-Dong Gao, Bo Xu, Zhang-Ming Zhu, Wen-Bin Ju, Xin-Fen Gao, 2017. Molecular phylogenetics and historical biogeography of Sorbus sensu stricto (Rosaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 111: 76–86.

　　 Dong-Pil Jin, Jung-Hyun Lee, Bo Xu, Byoung-Hee Choi, 2016. Phylogeography of East Asian Lespedeza buergeri (Fabaceae) based on chloroplast and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence variations. Journal of Plant Research 129 (5) : 1-13.

　　 Xue-Li Zhao, Xin-Fen Gao, Bo Xu, 2016. Pollen morphology of Indigofera (Fabaceae) in China and its taxonomic implications. Plant Systematics and Evolution 302: 469–479.

　　 Peter W. Fritsch, Lu Lu, Bo Xu, Hong Wang, De-Zhu Li, 2016. Gaultheria marronina sp. nov. (Ericaceae) from Sichuan, China. Nordic Journal of Botany 34: 545–549.

　　 Bo Xu, Xin-Fen Gao, and Li-Bing Zhang, 2015. Lespedeza hengduanshanensis comb. & stat. nov. (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae: Desmodieae) from the Hengduan Mountains of SW China. Phytotaxa 202 (2): 165–168.

　　 Bo Xu, Xin-Fen Gao, and Li-Bing Zhang, 2013. Lespedeza jiangxiensis, sp. nov. (subgen. Lespedeza; Fabaceae) from China based on molecular, palynological, and morphological evidence. Systematic Botany 38(1): 118-126.

　　 Bo Xu, Ning Wu, Xin-Fen Gao, and Li-Bing Zhang, 2012. Analysis of DNA sequences of six plastid and nuclear genes suggests incongruence, introgression, and incomplete lineage sorting in the evolution of Lespedeza (Fabaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62: 346–358.

　　 Bo Xu, Xin-Fen Gao, Ning Wu, and Li-Bing Zhang, 2011. Pollen diversity and systematic implications in Lespedeza (Fabaceae). Systematic Botany 36 (2): pp. 352–361.