Crop Germplasm Resources Collection and Introduction

Team Name: Crop Germplasm Resources Collection and Introduction

Research Focus: collecting and evaluating stress-resistant crop germplasm resources in arid areas in Northwest, and investigating, collecting and classifying crop wild relatives and species resources unique to China; building a joint investigation team, going to the major foreign diversity centers on crop germplasm, investigating and collecting upland rice, rice landrace , wheat, maize, food legumes, cotton, barley, oat and other kind of important germplasm resources; studying the evolution, classification, phenotypic traits and availability of elite crop germplasm resources and establishing databases to provide the germplasm resources and their data to breeders and researchers for nationwide.

Research objectives: to increase strategic reserves of germplasm resources in China, enrich species and genetic diversity of inventory germplasm, develop new germplasm and new materials much needed in breeding and scientific research, and promote a modern seed industry and sustainable agricultural development by collecting and utilizing elite crop germplasm resources.

Team Chief: Dr. WANG Shu-min

Education Background

Wang Shumin, a researcher on plant genetic resources by training, received his BSc degree in Agronomy (1984) from the Laiyang Agricultural University of Shandong Province, his MS degree in Plant Genetics (1987) from the Graduate School of CAAS and his PhD in Crop Genetics and Breeding (2001) from the China Agricultural University in Beijing, China.

Research Area

Wang Shumin is a program leader on crop collection mission in China. He organized the collection mission in Three Gorge Areas from 1996~2000 and the stress tolerance crop germplasm resources investigation on West-North Regions of China from 2011~2016. He was also a national coordinator for plant germplasm resources protection and utilization and responsible for the international collaboration in China.

Wang Shumin was also doing the research on gene discovery focus on disease and drought tolerance of common bean as well as evaluation, regeneration, documentation and conservation for food legume germplasm resources.

Wang Shumin was an expert of International treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. He attended more than ten times of the meeting related to the plant genetic resources and negotiation on the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. He was familiar with the rules and procedure related to material transfer agreement.

Publications

Xiaoyan Zhang,Matthew W.Blair, Shumin Wang, Genetic diversity of Chinese common bean(Phaseolus vulgaris L.) landraces assessed with simple sequence repeat markers, Theor Appl Genet,2008,117:629-640

Ji-Bao Chen, Shu-Min Wang,Rui-Lian Jing, Xin-Guo Mao;Cloning the PvP5CS gene from common bean(Phaseolus vulgaris) and its expression patterns under abiotic stresses, Journal of Plant Physiology, 166(2009)12-19

Jibao Chen, Xiaoyan Zhang, Ruilian Jing, Matthew W. Blair,Xinguo Mao, Shumin Wang, Cloning and genetic diversity analysis of a new P5CS gene from common bean(Phaseolus vulgaris L.),TAG(2010),120:1393-1404

Mingli Chen, Jing Wu, Lanfen Wang, Xiaoyan Zhang, Matthew W. Blair, Jizeng Jia, Shumin Wang, Development of mapped simple sequence repeat markers from common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) based on genome sequences of a Chinese landrace and diversity evaluation, Mol Breeding, DOI 10.1007/s11032-013-9949-2, Published online: 20 September 2013

Ren Feng Xue,Jing Wu, Lan Fen Wang, Matthew W.Blair, Xiao Ming Wang, Wei De Ge, Zhen Dong Zhu, Shu Min Wang. Salicylic Acid Enhances Resistant to Fusarium Oxysporum F.sp Phaseoli in Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, DOI 10.1007/s00344-013-9376-y, Published online: 16 October 2013

Academic membership

Secretary-general, Genetic Resources Branch, Chinese Association of Agricultural Science Societies

Executive Director, Chinese Association Agro-environmental Protection

Team Members: ZhANG Jing, WANG Ke-jing, Tao Mei, ZhANG Zong-wen, LU Ping, GAO Ai-nong, HU Xiao-rong, WU Bin