YANG Qingwen

Dr. Yang Qingwen

Professor

Address: 12 Zhong Guan Cun South Street, Beijing 100081

Tel: 86-10-62189165, 18611392811

Fax: 86-10-62189165

Email: yangqingwen@caas.cn

Education Background

1982.9-1986.7: Huazhong Agricultural University, China, BS degree in Plant Breeding and Genetics.

1997.2-1999.2: Adelaide University, Australia, MS in Agricultural Biotechnology.

2001.9-2004.6: China Agricultural University, China, PhD in Crop Genetics and Breeding

Research Area

Dr. Yang Qingwen was the leader of the Research Group of Wild Rice Genetic Resources at the Research Center of Crop Germplasm Resources in the Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

Dr. Yang Qingwen was responsible for organizing research projects on wild rice related areas such as collection, evaluation, ex-situ conservation and in-situ conservation. He was also engaged in studies on gene mapping, gene cloning from wild rice resources, and the origin and evolution of Asian Cultivated rice based on comparing genome sequence of wild rice with cultivated rice. As the Chief Technical Advisor of a GEF sponsored project “Conservation and sustainable utilization of wild relatives of crops” implemented by UNDP and Chinese government, he was responsible for leading an expert group to do practices of in-situ conservation of wild rice, wild soybean and wild relatives of crops with mainstreaming approach in China and achieved great success.

Dr. Yang Qingwen also provided technical support for ministries of Chinese government such as MOA, MOEP, MOST, SFA etc. to carry out some international cooperation projects such as CBPF (China Biodiversity Partnership Framework), ECBP (Europe-China Biodiversity Program) etc.

Publications

Books:

(1) Studies on Wild Rice Conservation and Utilization, 2003. (Chief Editor)

(2) Characteristics with Photos of Agricultural Plants in China, 2013. (Chief Editor)

(3) Practice of incentives in the conservation of wild relatives of crops in China (Chinese version), 2013. (Chief Editor)

(4) Name list and characteristics of crops and their wild relatives in China, 2013. (Chief Editor)

(5) Evaluation of existing legislations and policies related to agriculture on agro-biodiversity in China, 2013. (Chief Editor)

(6) Collection and conservation of wild rice in Guangxi Autonomous Region, 2012. (Chief Editor)

(7) Characteristics with Photos of wild rice in Guangxi Autonomous Region, 2013. (Chief Editor)

(8) Introduction of Endangered Wild Plants in China, 2004. (Deputy Chief Editor)

(9) Genetic Breeding and Progenies of Rice Varieties, 2010. (Deputy Chief Editor)

Papers

More than 60 scientific papers were published. The representative papers are listed as following:

(1) Wei X, Qiao WH, Chen YT, Wang RS, Cao LR, Zhang WX, Yuan NN, Li ZC, Zeng HL, Yang QW (2012) Domestication and geographic origin of Oryza sativa in China: insights from multilocus analysis of nucleotide variation of O. sativa and O. rufipogon. Molecular Ecology, 21: 5073-5087 [IF: 5.5]

(2) Wei X, Wang RS, Cao LR, Yuan NN, Huang J, Qiao WH, Zhang WX, Zeng HL, Yang QW (2012) Origin of Oryza sativa in China inferred by nucleotide polymorphisms of organelle DNA. Plos One, 7: e49546 [IF: 4.1]

(3) Qiao WH, Chen YT, Wang RS, Wei X, Cao LR, Zhang WX, Yang QW (2012) Nucleotide diversity in Waxy gene and validation of single nucleotide polymorphism in relation to amylose content in Chinese microcore rice germplasm. Crop Science, 52: 1689-1697 [IF: 1.6]

(4) Xin Wei, Weihua Qiao, Nannan Yuan,Youtao Chen, Rongsheng Wang, Lirong Cao, Wanxia Zhang, Qingwen Yang* & Hanlai Zeng*. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, doi:10.1007/s10722-013-0019-8 [IF: 1.593]

Academic membership

Deputy director of the Exert Committee of China Association of Wild Plant Protection;

Deputy director of the Consultant Association of Environment and Ecosystem Protection