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Director of Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization (The Ministry of Education)
China Agricultural University, Beijing
China
Tel.: +86-10-62734421
E-mail: nizf@cau.edu.cn
Area of expertise: Wheat; polyploidy; heterosis; yield; root; plant height; abiotic Stress
Selected Publications:
Chen, Z., Cheng, X., Chai, L., Wang, Z., Bian, R., Li, J., Zhao, A., Xin, M., Guo, W., Hu, Z., Peng, H., Yao, Y., Sun, Q., and Ni, Z. (2020).Dissection of genetic factors underlying grain size and fine mapping of QTgw.cau-7D in common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).Theor Appl Genet. 133:149–162.
Chai, L., Chen, Z., Bian, R., Zhai, H., Cheng, X., Peng, H., Yao, Y., Hu, Z., Xin, M., Guo, W., Sun, Q., Zhao, A., and Ni, Z. (2019). Dissection of two quantitative trait loci with pleiotropic effects on plant height and spike length linked in coupling phase on the short arm of chromosome 2D of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).Theor. Appl. Genet. 132:1815–1831.
Wang, H.F., Hu, Z.R., Huang, K., Han, Y., Zhao, A.J., Han, H.M., Song, L., Fan, C.F., Li, R., Xin, M.M., Peng, H.R., Yao, Y.Y., Sun, Q.X., and Ni, Z.F. (2018). Three genomes differentially contribute to the seedling lateral root number in allohexaploid wheat: Evidence from phenotype evolution and gene expression. Plant J. 95: 976–987.
Zhai, H.J., Feng, Z.Y., Du, X.F., Song, Y.E., Liu, X.Y., Qi, Z.Q., Song, L., Li, J., Li, L.H., Peng, H.R., Hu, Z.R., Yao,Y.Y., Xin, M.M., Xiao, S.H., Sun, Q.X., and Ni, Z.F. (2018). A novel allele of TaGW2-A1 is located in a finely mapped QTL that increases grain weight but decreases grain number in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Theor. Appl. Genetics 131: 539–553.
Li, Y.Y., Wang, C., Liu, X.Y., Song, J., Li, H.J., Sui, Z.P., Zhang, M., Fang, S., Chu, J.F., Xin, M.M., Xie, C.J., Zhang, Y.R., Sun, Q.X., and Ni, Z.F. (2016). Up-regulating the abscisic acid inactivation gene ZmABA8ox1b contributes to seed germination heterosis by promoting cell expansion. J Exp. Bot. 67: 2889–2900.
Chai, L.L., Chen, Z.Y., Bian, R.L., Zhai, H.J., Cheng, X.J., Peng, H.R., Yao, Y.Y.Y., Hu, Z.R., Xin, M.M., Guo, W.L., Sun, Q.X., Zhao, A.J., and Ni, Z.F. (2018). Dissection of two quantitative trait loci with pleiotropic effects on plant height and spike length linked in coupling phase on the short arm of chromosome 2D of common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Theor. Appli. Genet. 131: 2621–2637.
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