Gong Haijun
Professor
Horticulture
Northwest A&F University
China
Biography
First name: Haijun 　　Family name: Gong 　　Gender: Male 　　Place of birth: Dongtai, Jiangsu 　　Title: Professor in Vegetable Science 　　Education and working experience 　　2010.09- Professor, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University 　　2007.07-2010.07: Postdoc at CSIRO, Australia 　　2006.03-2008.01: Postdoc at Zhejiang University, China 　　2004.12-2005.12: Visiting Research Fellow at University of Sussex, UK 　　2004.06: PhD in Botany, Lanzhou University, China
Research Interest
1） Physiological and molecular basis of plants’ adaptation to abiotic stresses; 　　2） Mechanisms of silicon-mediated tolerance to environmental stresses in plants
Publications
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Gong H, Chen K. The regulatory role of silicon on water relations, photosynthetic gas exchange, and carboxylation activities of wheat leaves in field drought conditions. Acta Physiol Plant, 2012, 34: 1589-1594.
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Shi Y, Wang YC, Flowers TJ, Gong HJ. Silicon decreases chloride transport in rice （Oryza sativa L.） in saline conditions. J Plant Physiol, 2013, 170: 847-853.
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Wu JW, Shi Y, Zhu YX, Wang YC, Gong HJ. 2013. Mechanisms of enhanced heavy metal tolerance in plants by silicon. Pedosphere, 23: 815-825.
