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Yonghua Qin
Summary
Research Interest
1) New cultivar selection of pitaya and citrus through traditional breeding method and genetic transformation; 2) Isolation and functional analyses of key genes related to self-incompatibility through genomics, proteomics and transcriptomics; 3) Isolation and functional analyses of key genes related to betalain biosynthesis through genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and microRNA.
Research Grants
I have received and completed several grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31000899), Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 20104404120015), Guangdong Province Science Foundation of China (No. S2013010011950), Planning Project of Guangdong Province (No. 2010B020305007 and 2014B020202010), Foundation for Higher Education Discipline and Specialty Construction of Guangdong Provincial Department of Education (No. 2013KJCX0031), Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou (No. 2010r1-C771 and 201607010314), etc.
Represented Publications (First author or corresponding author)
Have published more than thirty manuscript in Biotechnology Advances, Frontier in Plant Science, Molecular Breeding, Plant Science, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, Molecular Biology Reports, Gene, Plant Growth Regulation and Scientia Horticulturae.