Education

PhD, South Dakota State University

Current Research Areas

I am working on soybean resistance/tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses to identify the underlying genetic basis through combination of high-throughput phenotyping technology and genome-wide association analysis (for both addictive and epistatic effects). I am also working on agronomic traits that are economically important and domestication-related traits in soybean.

Publications/Conference Papers

Honors/Awards

Awarded project grant by the Center for Excellence on Drought Tolerance Research, SDSU, User award by Functional Genomics Core Facility, SDSU, Travel scholarship

Brief Biography

I am from Zhejiang province, China. I obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Agronomy at Jimei University and a Master’s degree in Microbiology at Xiamen University, China. I earned my PhD degree in Plant Science at South Dakota State University, USA, 2014. Although I am staying in Iowa now, a place with flat topography, hill-hiking is my favorite exercise. As most people, I like to travel with my family and appreciate the charms of natural landscape. I am working on soybean because it is not only the subject crop of my PhD research program, but is also an important crop for farmers and everyone else. I am dedicated to improve soybeans. I also like to play with R statistical software.