In memory of Professor Pang-Juan Lin, our colleague and a beloved friend

Prof. Pang-Juan Lin was born in Chenghai County, eastern Guangdong Province in 1937. After the Second World War, her family moved to Guangzhou City, where her father worked at a local branch of the Bank of China. Pang-Juan was his third daughter. During her childhood, she attended Liang-Jia-Ci Primary School from 1945 to 1950, and then continued her education at Chang-Chen Middle School from 1950 to 1956. In the autumn of 1956, Pang-Juan was admitted to the Department of Biology at the South China Normal College, from which she graduated in July 1960. Following her graduation, Pang-Juan was assigned to work at South China Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBSC) in the autumn of 1960.