Liu Yong-Zhong

I am a teacher, as well as a scientist in Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei province. As of a teacher, my job is to teach undergraduate graduate students basic knowledge and technologies for fruit cultivation, also to supervise master and doctoral students, as well as postdoctoral researchers in scientific research. As of a scientist,my research interests are including:1) to investigate the mechanism for the regulation of citrus shoot branching and growth, as well as of the organic acid and sugar accumulation in citrus fruits; 2) to develop efficient cultivation techniques for the reduction of labor cost, pesticides and chemical fertilizers application in citrus orchart management, and then the improvement of fruit quality. In recent years, my group have got financial support of over one million RMB per year, published over 30 papers and two books in the last five years. Anyhow, you are welcome to my laboratory for your PhD research or joint research.

• 2002 – 2006 Ph.D. Huazhong Agricultural University, Fruit Science, Wuhan, China
• 1996 – 1999 M.S. Southwest Agricultural University, Fruit Science, Chongqing, China
• 1996 – 1999 B.A. Southwest Agricultural University, Fruit Science, Chongqing, China

1. Xiaoli Liao; Yue Li; Zhenzhu Hu; Ying Lin; Bo Zheng; Jihua Ding*; Poplar Acetylome Profiling Reveals Lysine Acetylation Dynamics in Seasonal Bud Dormancy Release, Plant, Cell & Environment, 2021, 44:1830–1845.
2. Jihua Ding*; Bo Zhang; Yue Li; Domenique André; Ove Nilsson*; Phytochrome B and PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR8 Modulate Seasonal Growth in Trees, New Phytologist, 2021, 232: 2339–2352.3. Ding Jihua; Böhlenius Henrik; Mark Georg Rühl; Chen Peng; Sane Shashank;
Jose A. Zambrano; Zheng Bo; Maria E. Eriksson; Nilsson Ove*; GIGANTEA-like genes control seasonal growth cessation in Populus, New Phytologist, 2018, 218: 1491-1503.
4. Ding, Jihua; Nilsson, Ove*; Molecular regulation of phenology in trees- because the seasons they are a-changin’, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 2016, 29: 73-79.
5. Wang Jing; Ding Jihua; Tan Biyue; Kathryn M. Robinson; Ingrid H. Michelson; Johansson Anna; Nystedt Björn; Douglas G. Scofield; Nilsson Ove; Jansson Stefan; Nathaniel R. Street; Pär K. Ingvarsson*; A major locus controls local adaptation and adaptive life history variation in a perennial plant, Genome Biology 2018 19(72).
6. Jihua Ding, Qin Lu, Yidan Ouyang, Hailiang Mao, Pingbo Zhang, Jialing Yao, Caiguo Xu, Xianghua Li, Qifa Zhang. A long noncoding RNA regulates photoperiod-sensitive male sterility, an essential component of hybrid rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2012, 109(7):2654-2659. (Recommended by Faculty 1000)
7. Jihua Ding, Jianqiang Shen, Hailiang Mao, Caiguo Xu, Weibo Xie and Qifa Zhang. RNA-directed DNA methylation involves in controlling photoperiod-sensitive male sterility in rice. Molecular Plant, 2012, 5(6): 1210-6.
8. Jiangyi Yang, Xiaobo Zhao, Ke Cheng, Hongyi Du, Yidan Ouyang, Jiongjiong Chen, Shuqing Qiu, Jianyan Huang, Yunhe Jiang, Liwen Jiang, Jihua Ding, Jia Wang, Caiguo Xu, Xianghua Li, Qifa Zhang*. A Killer-Protector System Regulates Both Hybrid Sterility and Segregation Distortion in Rice. Science, 2012, 337:1336-1340.
9. Yidan Ouyang, Jiongjiong Chen, Jihua Ding, and Qifa Zhang. Advances in the understanding of inter-subspecific hybrid sterility and wide-compatibility in rice. Chinese Science Bulletin, 2009, 54(14):2332-2341.
10. Jiongjiong Chen#, Jihua Ding#, Yidan Ouyang#, Hongyi Du, Jiangyi Yang, Ke Cheng, Jie Zhao, Shuqing Qiu, Xuelian Zhang, Jialing Yao, Kede Liu, Lei Wang, Caiguo Xu, Xianghua Li, Yongbiao Xue, Mian Xia, Qing Ji, Jufei Lu, Mingliang Xu, and Qifa Zhang. A triallelic system of S5 is a major regulator of the reproductive barrier and compatibility of indica–japonica hybrids in rice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2008, 105:11436–11441. (# co-first author, Recommended by Faculty 1000)