Dr Jingjuan Zhang
Research Fellow
Agricultural Sciences
Murdoch University
Australia
Biography
Dr Jingjuan Zhang is a PhD in Plant Molecular Biological and Physiological Science, Murdoch University, Australia. Thesis title: Water deficit in bread wheat: characterisation using genetic and physiological tools. Honours in Plant Molecular Biological Science, Murdoch University, Australia. Thesis title: Rice, wheat and barley comparative genomics to identify new molecular markers for dwarfing. Bachelor of Science in Crop Genetics and Breeding, Nanjing Agricultural University, China. Thesis title: Statistics analysis of agronomic traits of hybridisation of Japonica and Indica rice.
Research Interest
Discover gene functions linked to plant phenotype. Major restricted factors on wheat growth metabolism under abiotic stress.
Publications
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Wheat genotypic variation in dynamic fluxes of WSC components in different stem segments under drought during grain filling, Frontiers in Plant Science, 6, AUG, pages 1 - 11.
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Chen, X., Cao, X., Zhang, Y., Islam, M., Zhang, J., Yang, R., Liu, J., Li, G., Appels, R., Keeble-Gagnere, G., Ji, W., He, Z., Ma, W., (2016), Genetic characterization of cysteine-rich type-b avenin-like protein coding genes in common wheat, Scientific Reports, 6, , pages -.
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Zhang, J., Dell, B., Ma, W., Vergauwen, R., Zhang, X., Oteri, T., Foreman, A., Laird, D., Van den Ende, W., (2016), Contributions of root WSC during grain filling in wheat under drought, Frontiers in Plant Science, 7, , pages -.
