Juanying Zhao

Personal profile

Juanying Zhao, female, born in 1992, Ph.D, assistant researcher, Master's supervisor.Academic Education & Work Career

Academic Education

Work Career：

Main Research directions

1. Mining and mechanism of important functional genes in sorghum

2. Molecular breeding of sorghum

Overview of Teaching and Research

Dr. Zhao engaged in the research of Mining and mechanism of important functional genes in crop. She has presided over basic research in Shanxi Province plan youth fund, Program of Doctoral research Foundation of Shanxi Province, doctoral researchers reward research projects, and participated in 2 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Joint Research of Innovative Seed Varieties in Shanxi Seed Industry. She has published 6 papers in international and national academic journals, of which 5 were included in SCI.

Teaching and Research Projects

1. Function and molecular mechanism of SbPLATZ regulating grain size in sorghum. The Youth Foundation for the Basic Research (Free Exploration) Program of Shanxi Province, Preside over.

2. Extraction and functional analysis of sorghum resistance candidate genes. The Ph.D Research Launch project of Shanxi Agricultural University, Preside over.

3. Effects of exogenous calcium on growth and drought tolerance of sorghum seedlings. Shanxi Province doctoral graduates, postdoctoral researchers to work in jin award research projects, Preside over.

4. High yield new germplasm development of sorghum. National Natural Science Foundation of China. Participate.

5. Study on molecular marker-assisted breeding technology for brewing sorghum. National Natural Science Foundation of China. Participate.

Presentative papers

1. First Author. Zhao JY*, Zheng L*, Wei JT*, Wang YX, Chen J, Zhou YB, Chen M, Wang FZ, Ma YZ, Xu ZS. The soybean PLATZ transcription factor GmPLATZ17 suppresses drought tolerance by interfering with stress-associated gene regulation of GmDREB5. The Crop Journal. 2022, 10(4):1014-1025.

2. First Author. Zhao JY*, Lu ZW*, Sun Y, Fang ZW, Chen J, Zhou YB, Chen M, Ma YZ, Xu ZS, Min DH. The ankyrin-repeat gene GmANK114 confers drought and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis and soybean. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2020, 11:584167.

3. Co-first author. Sun Y*, Zhao JY*, Li YT, Zhang PG, Wang SP, Chen J, Zhou YB, Chen M, Ma YZ, Fang ZW, Xu ZS. Genome-wide analysis of the C2 domain family in soybean and identification of a putative abiotic stress response gene GmC2-148. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2021, 12:620544.

4. Co-first author. Liu JM*, Zhao JY*, Lu PP, Chen M, Guo CH, Xu ZS, Ma YZ. The E-subgroup pentatricopeptide repeat protein family in Arabidopsis thaliana and confirmation of the responsiveness PPR96 to abiotic stresses. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2016, 7:1825.

5. Wang D, Liu YX, Yu Q, Zhao SP, Zhao JY, Ru JN, Cao XY, Fang ZW, Chen J, Zhou YB, Chen M, Ma YZ, Xu ZS, Lan JH. Functional analysis of the soybean GmCDPK3 gene responding to drought and salt stresses. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2019, 20:5909.

6. First Author. Zhao JY*, Liu JM, Feng ZJ, Ma YZ, Chen M, Zhou YB, Chen J, Xu ZS, Guo CH. The response to heat and screening of the interacting proteins of zinc finger protein GmDi19-5 in soybean. Scientia Agricultura Sinica. 2017, 50(12): 2389-2398.

Contact information

Address：Sorghum Reseasch Institute, Shanxi Agricultural University

Postcode：030600

Email：zjy0502@yeah.net

Tel：18501915934