J Integr Plant Biol board

Dr. Jianquan Liu

Professor
College of Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Herbage Improvement and Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, Lanzhou University, Tianshui Road, Lanzhou, 730000 China
E-mail: liujq@nwipb.ac.cn
Website:ceen.lzu.edu.cn/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=9&id=78
Area of expertise: Speciation, molecular adaptation, allelic variation, phylogeny, genome evolution

Speciality Area

Molecular Ecology and Evolution

Selected Publications:

Zhang, Z., Zhang, P., Ding, Y., Wang, Z., Ma, Z., Gagnon, E. Jia, Y., Cheng, L., Bao, Z., Liu, Z., Wu, Y., Hu, Y., Lian, Q. Lin, W., Wang N., Ye, K., Wang, H., Zhang, J., Zhou, Y., Liu, L., Li, S., Lucas, W., Särkinen, T., Knapp, S., Rieseberg, L., Liu, J and Huang, S (2025). Ancient hybridization underlies tuberization and radiation of the potato lineage. Cell 188: 5249–5265.

Zhang, H., Zhang, P., Niu, Y., Tao, T., Liu, G., Dong, C., Zheng, Z. Zhang, Z., Li, Y., Niu, Z., Liu, W., Guo, Z., Hu, S., Yang, Y., Li, M., Sun, H., Renner S. and Liu, J. (2025). Genetic basis of camouflage in an alpine plant and its long-term co-evolution with an insect herbivore. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 9: 628-638.

Sun, P., Lu, Z., Wang, Z., Wang, S., Zhao, K., Mei, D., Yang, J., Yang, Y., Renner, S. and Liu, J (2024). Subgenome-aware analyses reveal the genomic consequences of ancient allopolyploid hybridizations throughout the cotton family. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 121: e2313921121.

Kang, M., Wu, H., Liu, H., Liu, W., Zhu, M., Han, Y., Liu, W., Chen, C., Song, Y., Tan, L., Yin, K., Zhao, Y., Yan, Z, Lou, S., Zan, Y. and Liu, J. (2023) The pan-genome and local adaptation of Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Commun. 14: 6259.

Yang, J., Wu, Y., Zhang, P., Ma, J., Yao, Y., Ma, Y., Zhang, L., Yang, Y., Zhao, C., Wu, J., Fang, X. and Liu, J. (2023). Multiple independent losses of the biosynthetic pathway for two tropane alkaloids in the Solanaceae family. Nature Commun. 14: 8457.

Lou, S., Liu, L., Song, Y., Zhang, L., Jiang, Y., Guo, X., Zhang, L., Sun, P., Liu, B., Tong, S., Chen, N., Liu, M., Zhang, H., Liang, R., Feng, X., Zheng, Y., Liu, H., Holdsworth, M. and Liu, J (2022). Allelic shift in cis-elements of the transcription factor RAP2.12 underlies adaptation associated with humidity in Arabidopsis thaliana. Sci. Adv. 8: eabn8281.

Sun, P., Jiao, B., Yang, Y., Shan, L., Li, T., Li, X., Xi, Z., Wang, X. and Liu, J (2022). WGDI: A user-friendly toolkit for evolutionary analyses of whole-genome duplications and ancestral karyotypes. Mol. Plant 15: 1841-1851.

Wang, Z., Jiang, Y., Bi, H., Lu, Z., Ma, Y., Yang, X., Chen, N., Tian, B., Liu, B., Mao, X., Ma, T., DiFazio, S., Hu, Q., Abbott, R. and Liu, J. (2021). Hybrid speciation via inheritance of alternate alleles of parental isolating genes. Mol. Plant, 14: 208-222.

Yang, Y., Sun, P., Lv, L., Wang, D., Ru, D., Li, Y., Mao, T., Zhang, L., Shen, X., Meng, F., Jiao, B., Shan, L., Liu, M., Wang, Q., Qin, Z., Xi, Z., Wang, X., Davis, C. and Liu, J. (2020). Prickly waterlily and rigid hornwort genomes shed light on early angiosperm evolution. Nat. Plants 6: 215-222.

Chen, L., Hänninen, H., Rossi, S., Smith, N., Pau, S., Liu, Z., Feng G., Gao, J. and Liu, J. (2020). Leaf senescence exhibits stronger climatic responses during warm than during cold autumns. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10: 777-780.

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