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Maize Endosperm Development and Genetic Improvement Group  
  

 
 

Qi Li

Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Place of birth: Jiangxi, China
Languages: English, Chinese
Advisorx: Yongrui Wu
Contact: liqi01@sibs.ac.cn

Education

09/2014 - present Ph.D. candidate of Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology

09/2010 - 06/2014 Bachelor of Agronomy, Department of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University

Invited keynote

2017 Short talk, The maize imprinting gene Floury3 encodes a PLATZ protein required for tRNA and 5S rRNA transcription through interaction with RNA Polymerase III, St.Louis, Missouri, USA.

  

Objectives

1. Identify new factors involving in plant-specific RNA polymerase III transcription machinery

2. Dissect new mechanisms on auxin-herbicide resistance in maize

3. Identify new components that function on genomic imprinting in maize endosperm

Backgrounds

1. Maize (Zea mays) is one of the most important feed and food crops in the world. With the earth’s fast-growing population, the demand for sustainable production of maize seeds with high nutritional quality is increasing.
2. Maize (Zea mays) floury3 (fl3) is a classic semi-dominant negative mutant that exhibits severe defects in the endosperm but fl3 plants otherwise appear normal.


Publication

1. Qi Li#, Jiechen Wang#, Jianwei Ye#, Xixi Zheng, Xiaoli Xiang, Changsheng Li, Miaomiao Fu, Qiong Wang, Zhiyong Zhang and Yongrui Wu. (2017). The maize imprinted gene Floury3 encodes a PLATZ protein required for tRNA and 5S rRNA transcription through interaction with RNA polymerase III. Plant Cell 10.1105/tpc.17.00576.