Areas of expertise
About
85% Research and 15% Teaching
My major responsibilities at UGA include: 1) Integration of traditional breeding with genomic technology to develop improved cultivars and germplasm of soybean adapted to the Southeastern U .S. with flexibility to solve other agricultural problems based on industry needs and program direction.; 2) Deploying transgenes in the breeding program and releasing improved cultivars and germplasm; 3) QTL/gene discovery for traits of importance and development of genetic marker assays for marker-assisted breeding; and 4) Mentoring graduate students and teaching a graduate course in quantitative plant breeding
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding
University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, IL, United States (1999)
Master of Science, Agricultural and Horticultural Plant Breeding
Yangzhou University, China (1987)
Bachelor of Science, Agronomy and Crop Science
Laiying Institute of Agriculture, China (1983)
Awards and Honors
- Above & Beyond (2010)
- Above & Beyond Award (2008)
- Research Innovation Award (2008)
Scholarly Works
- A major QTL conditioning salt tolerance in S-100 soybean and descendent cultivars, THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS, (2004).
- QTL for seed protein and amino acids in the Benning x Danbaekkong soybean population, THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS, (2015).
- Pinpointing genes underlying the quantitative trait loci for root-knot nematode resistance in palaeopolyploid soybean by whole genome resequencing, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, (2013).
- Genetic Diversity among Soybean Accessions from Three Countries Measured by RAPDs, Crop Science, (2001).
- SNP identification and marker assay development for high-throughput selection of soybean cyst nematode resistance, BMC GENOMICS, (2015).
Contact
Mailing Address
Center for Applied Genetic Technologies
111 Riverbend Road
Athens, GA 30602
