1. 管开云,田代科,云南秋海棠属植物三新种,云南植物研究,22,(2)129-134,2000
2. Guan Kaiyun, Ornamental Plant Resources in Yunnan. International Symposium on Man and Nature-Landscape, Horticulture and Plant Resources. Iwatsuki, Guan Kaiyun eds. p.116-127,2001
3. 管开云,中国花卉研究的进展,植物科学进展(第四卷)P. 59-368,2002
4. 向建英, 管开云*,杨俊波,应用ITS区序列对秋海棠属无翅组分类学问题探讨,云南植物研究,24(4):455-462,2002
5. Guan Kaiyun, Wild Flowers of Yunnan, China and their Horticultural Potential, Bulletin of the Hyogo Prefectural Awaji Landscape Planning & Horticulture Academy, Vol. 2 No. 2,2002
6. 李宏哲,管开云*,马宏,五种中国秋海棠属植物的染色体数目,云南植物研究,27(1):92-94,2005
7. 管开云,李景秀,李宏哲,云南秋海棠属植物资源调查研究,园艺学报,32(1):74-80,2005
8. Guan Kaiyun,Fershalova T.D., Tsybulya N.V., Tian Daike,Antimicrobic Activity of Volatile Emissions of Some Begonias from Yunnan, China,Acta Botanica Yunnanica, 27 (4):437-442,2005
9. Hong-Zhe LI, Hong MA, Kai-yun GUAN*, and Ching-I PENG, Begonia rubinea (sect. Platycentrum, Begoniaceae), a new species from Guizhou, China,Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica, 46:377-383,2005
10. 管开云,李景秀、李宏哲,马宏,秋海棠新品种‘紫叶’、‘紫柄’、和‘大裂’,园艺学报,33(4):933,2006
11. 管开云,李景秀、李宏哲,马宏,秋海棠新品种‘香皇后’、‘厚角’、‘芳菲’和‘丛茎’,园艺学报,33(5):1171,2006
12. Guan Kaiyun, Yamaguchi Hirofumi, Li Jingxiu, Li Hongzhe, Ma Hong, Traditiona Uses of Begonias (Begoniaceae) in China,Acta Botanica Yunnanica,29 (1):58-66,2007
13. Ai-Rong Li, Kai-Yun Guan*, Mycorrhizal and dark septate endophytic fungi of Pedicularis species from northwest of Yunnan Province, China, Mycorrhiza ,17,103-109,2007
14. 沈云光,王仲朗,管开云*,国产13种鸳尾属植物的核型研究,植物分类学报, 45(5):601-618, 2007
15.Y.-Q. REN and K.-Y.Guan*, Effects of moist-chilling and GA3 applications on seed germination of three Pedicularis species from Yunnan, China. Seed Science and Technology, 36, 225-229, 2008
16. Hong-Zhe LI, Hong MA, Zhe-Kun ZHOU and Kai-Yun GUAN*, A New species of Begonia (Begoniaceae) from Guangxi, China. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 157, 83-90, 2008
17. Ai-Rong Li, Kai-Yun Guan*, Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi may serve as another nutrient strategy for some hemiparasitic species of Pedicularis (Orobanchaceae), Mycorrhiza, 18:429-436, 2008
18. K.-Y. Guan, H. Yamaguchi, H. Ma, J.-X. Li, H.-Z. Li, Begonia Germplasm Resources of China, Acta Hort. 766. ISHS, 337-348,2008
19. Nan Jiang, Wen-Bin Yu, Hong-Zhe Li and Kai-Yun Guan*. Floral traits, pollination ecology and breeding system of three Clematis species (Ranunculaceae) in Yunnan province, southwestern China. Australian Journal of Botany, 58, 115–123,2010
20. Zi-Juan WANG & Kai-Yun GUAN*. Genetic structure and phylogeography of a relict tree fern, Sphaeropteris brunoniana (Cyatheaceae) from China and Laos inferred from cpDNA sequence variations: Implications for conservation. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 49 (1): 72–79,2011
21. Hu, X. J.,Yang, L. H.,*Guan, K. Y. Physiological dormancy in seeds of two endemic species of Begonia from Yunnan Province, China: diagnosis and classification. Plant Species Biology, 27(3), pp 201-209, 2012.
22. Li, Ai-Rong, Smith, Sally E.,Smith, F. Andrew, Guan, Kai-Yun. Inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi suppresses initiation of haustoria in the root hemiparasite Pedicularis tricolor. Annals of Botany, 109(6), pp 1075-1080, 2012/5.
23.代表性著作有《中国云南山茶花》、《云南高山花卉》、《云南花纪行》、《中国杜鹃花》(三卷)、《中国茶花图鉴》等。