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Maize Endosperm Development and Genetic Improvement Group  
  

 
 

Ningning Yuan

Position: Ph.D. Candidate
Place of birth: Henan, China
Languages: English, Chinese
Advisors: Yongrui Wu
Contact: 86-21-54924340, nnyuan@sibs.ac.cn
 Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 300 Fenglin Road, District Xuhui Shanghai, 200032

 

 

 

  

Education

2014-present Ph.D. candidate of Plant Genetics Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, SIBS, CAS
2010-2014 Bachelor of Henan University of Technology

Objectives

1. clone the key genes regulating the seed development relying on the emb and opaque mutants and develop interesting mechanism research

2.major on oil content and quality through reverse genetics, hoping to provide the basis for improving the maize seed quality

Publication

Hongjun Liu, Junpeng Shi, Chuanlong sun, Hao Gong, Xingming Fan, Fazhan Qiu, Xuehui Huang, Qi Feng, Xixi Zheng, Ningning Yuan, Zhiyong Zhang, Yiting Deng, Jiechen Wang, Guangtang Pan, Bin Han, Jinsheng Lai, Yongrui Wu(2016). Gene duplication confers enhanced expression of 27-kDa γ-zein for endosperm modification in quality protein maize. PNAS, 113:4964-4969