ACADEMIC AWARDS
1983 BSc Hebei Agricultural University, China
1986 MSc Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, China
ASSOCIATIONS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1995 Visiting Scholar, Purdue University, USA
1999 STA Fellowship, Hokkaido National Agricultural Experiment Station, MAFF, Japan
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1986 Research Assistant, Institute of Cereal Crops, Hebei, China
1988 Assistant Professor, Institute of Plant Genetics and Physiology, Hebei, China
1993 Associate Professor, Shijiazhuang Institute of Agricultural Modernization, CAS
2001 Professor, Head of Research Group, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Wheat molecular chromosome engineering breeding
Chromosome engineering breeding is a rapid, practical approach to transfer alien chromatin from wild species into wheat. In our lab, E. elongata, S. cereale and Ae. biuncialis were successfully crossed with T. aestivum and a set of novel disease/drought resistant substitution and translocation lines have been identified by GISH, FISH and molecular markers. Six commercial wheat cultivars were developed from combinations of common wheat × derivatives of octoploid T. aestivum -E. elongata and grown in total over 2.5 million hectare.
KEY WHEAT CULTIVARS
1. Kenong199: National registration number 2006017
2. Kenong1093: Hebei Provincial registration number 2005005
3. Kenong213: Hebei Provincial registration number 2004008
4. Kenong9204: National registration number 2003037
KEY PUBLICATIONS
1. Jun Ji, Zhiguo Wang, Jiazhu Sun, Junming Li*, Xiangqi Zhang, Daowen Wang, Aimin Zhang. 2008. Identification of new T1BL.1RS translocation lines derived from wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cultivar " Xiaoyan No. 6 " ) and rye hybridization. Acta Physiol Plant , 30: 689-695.
2. Xia Z, Wang Y, Du Z, Li J, Zhao R, Wang D. 2008. A potential nuclear envelope-targeting domain and an arginine-rich RNA binding element identified in the putative movement protein of the GAV strain of Barley yellow dwarf virus. Functional Plant Biology, 35: 40-50.
3. An DG, Su JY, Liu QY, Zhu YG, Tong YP, Li JM, Jing RL, Li B and Li ZS. 2006. Mapping QTLs for nitrogen uptake in relation to the early growth of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Plant and Soil, 284: 73-84.
4. An DG, Li LH, Li JM, Li HJ, Zhu YG. 2006. Introgression of resistance to powdery mildew conferred by chromosome 2R by crossing wheat nullisomic 2D with rye. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 48: 838-847.
5. Wang ZG, An DG, Li JM*, Molnar-lang M, Ji J, Zhong GC, Mu SM. 2004. Fluorescent in situ hybridization analysis of wheat-rye germplasm under the background of “Xiaoyan 6”. Acta Botanica Sinica, 46: 436-442.
