Genomic selection for crop improvement

Team Name: Genomic selection for crop improvement

Research Focus: Exploring the genetic basis of important agronomic traits such as yield, quality and stress tolerance in maize and other crops; Cloning and anlyzing the functions of key genes controlling important agronomic traits; Establishing a genomic selection system for the improvement of crop complex traits.

Collection, conservation, evaluation and diversity identification of minor cereal germplasm resources; Selection and improvement of elite parental breeding lines through mutagenesis induction by chemical, physical and genome modification methods; Breeding and demonstration of new varieties for field minor cereal crops production in China; Molecular genetics and functional gene cloning of major agrinomically important traits for molecular breeding of minor cereal and legume crops.

Research objectives: Establishing a genomic selection system for the improvement of maize and other crops.

Team Chief: Dr. WANG Guoying

Education Background

Ph.D.   Major in fruit genetics and breeding, Norhtwestern Agricultural University, 1991, China;

M. S.   Major in fruit genetics & breeding, Norhtwestern Agricultural University, 1985, China;

B. S.   Major in Pomology, Shanxi Agricultural University, 1982, China.

Research Area

•  Maize functional genomics and molecular breeding;

• Genetic engineering for maize improvemnet.

Publications

1．Hui Li, Zhiyu Peng, Xiaohong Yang, Weidong Wang, Junjie Fu, Jianhua Wang, Yinjia Han, Yuchao Chai, Tingting Guo, Ning Yang, Jie Liu, Marilyn L.Warburton, Yanbing Cheng, Xiaomin Hao, Pan Zhang, Jinyang Zhao, Yunjun Liu, Guoying Wang, Jiansheng Li, Jianbing Yan，2013. Genome-wide association study dissects the genetic architecture of oil biosynthesis in maize kernels. Nature Genetics. 45(1):43-50

2. Junjie Fu, Yanbing Cheng, Jingjing Linghu, Xiaohong Yang, Lin Kang, Zuxin Zhang, Xuemei Du, Bo Wang, Zhiyu Peng, Jie Zhang, Lihong Zhai, Changmin Dai, Cheng He, Jiabao Xu, Weidong Wang, Xiangru Li, Jun Zheng, Li Chen, Longhai Luo, Junjie Liu, Xiaoju Qian, Jianbing Yan, Jun Wang, Guoying Wang, 2013. RNA sequencing reveals the complex regulatory network in maize kernel. Nature Communication, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3832

3. Yuwen Zhang, Yunjun Liu, Yuan Ren, Yan Liu, Gemei Liang, Fuping Song, Shuxiong Bai, Jianhua Wang, Guoying Wang, 2013. Overexpression of a novel Cry1Ie gene confers resistance to Cry1Ac-resistant cotton bollworm in transgenic lines of maize. Plant Cell Tiss Organ Cult, 115(2):151-158

4．Hongkun Lv, Jun Zheng, Tianyu Wang, Junjie Fu, Junling Huai, Haowei Min, Xiang Zhang, Baohua Tian, Yunsu Shi, Guoying Wang, 2014. The maize d2003, a novel allele of VP8, is required for maize internode elongation. Plant Mol Biol. 84:243-257

5. Yunjun Liu, Gaoyi Cao, Rongrong Chen, Shengxue Zhang, Yuan Ren, Wei Lu, Jianhua Wang, Guoying Wang, 2015. Transgenic tobacco simultaneously overexpressing glyphosate N-acetyltransferase and 5-enolpyruvyl shikimate 3-phosphate synthase are more resistant to glyphosate than those containing one gene. Transgenic Research,24(4):753-753

 Academic membership

Senior Director, Agricultural Branch, Chinese Association of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Team Members: SUN Jia-qiang, QIAO Yong-li, FU Jun-jie, LIU Jun, LIU Zhi-fang, LIU Zhang-xiong, GUO Lin, ZHANG Lu-yan, ZHANG Hong-wei, HU Xiao-jiao, GU Jia-yu, ZHANG Sheng-xue, LI L