Song, Zhiping, Professor

E-mail: songzp@fudan.edu.cn

Undergraduate studies at Central China Normal University (1987-1991); Ph. D. in Biology at Wuhan University in 2001. Post-doctoral fellow at Fudan University from Jul.2001 to Jun. 2003; Associate Professor at Fudan university from Dec. 2003 to Mar. 2006; Professor of the School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, since Apr. 2006.

Research Interests

Dr. Zhiping Song has a long standing interest in molecular ecology, including the mechanisms underlying population genetic diversity and local adaptation of plant population to habitat heterogeneity, the possible impacts of human activities on population genetic dynamics and evolutionary potentials, the evolution of plant mating systems and tradeoff of reproductive strategies under changing environmental conditions, and the implications for conservations of important but endangered plant species, such as wild rice.

Awards

• 2005, New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET) of Ministry of Education of China;
• 2008, Second class award of “Natural Science Award” of Ministry of Education of China;
• 2009, First class award of “Natural Science Award” of Shanghai

Selected publications

1. You J, Qin X, Ranjitkar S, Lougheed S, Wang M, Zhou W, Ouyang D , Zhou Y , Xu J, Zhang W, Wang Y , Yang J , Song Z. (2018) Response to climate change of montane herbaceous plants in the genus Rhodiola predicted by ecological niche modelling. Sci Rep. 8: 5879.
2. Li L, Lan Z, Chen J, Song Z. (2018) Allocation to clonal and sexual reproduction and its plasticity in Vallisneria spinulosa along a water-depth gradient. Ecosphere. 9(1): e02070.
3. Dong S, Xiao M, Ouyang D, Rong J, Lu B, Su J, Wang F, Chen J, Song Z. (2017) Persistence of transgenes in wild rice populations depends on the interaction between genetic background of recipients and environmental conditions. Ann Appl Biol.171: 202-213.
4. Li L, Stephen S, Lan Z, Chen J, Song Z. (2017) Water depth affects reproductive allocation and reproductive allometry in the submerged macrophyte Vallisneria natans. Sci Rep.  7: 16842.
5. Liu W, Zhao Y, You J, Qi D, Zhou Y, Chen J, Song Z. (2016) Morphological and Genetic Variation along a North-to-South Transect in Stipa purpurea, a Dominant Grass on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Implications for Response to Climate Change. PloS One. 11（8）: e0161972.
6. Xiao M, Dong S,  Li Z, Tang X, Chen Y, Yang S, Wu C, Ouyang D, Fang C, Song Z. (2015) Effects of water management practices on residue decomposition and degradation of Cry1Ac protein from crop-wild Bt rice hybrids and parental lines during winter fallow season. Ecotox Environ Safe. 122:275–289.
7. Xiao M, Fang C, Dong S, Tang X, Chen Y, Yang S, Luo F, Wang F, Su J, Song Z. (2014) Litterbag decomposition of residues from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) rice hybrids and the parental lines under multiple field conditions. J Soil Sediment. 14:1669-1682.
8. Zhao Y, Vrieling K, Liao H, Xiao M, Zhu Y, Rong J, Zhang W, Wang Y, Yang J, Chen J, Song Z. (2013) Are habitat fragmentation, local adaptation and isolation-by-distance driving population divergence in wild rice Oryza rufipogon？Mol Ecol. 22: 5531-5547.
9. Dong S, Xiao M, Rong J, Liao H, Lu B, Chen J, Song Z. (2011) No effect of transgene and strong wild parent effects on seed dormancy in crop–wild hybrids of rice: implications for transgene persistence in wild populations. Ann Appl Biol. 159, 348–357.
10. Rong J*, Song Z*, de Jong T, Zhang X, Sun S, Xu X, Xia H, Liu B, Lu B. (2010)Modelling pollen-mediated gene flow in rice: risk assessment and management of transgene escape. Plant Biotech J. 8, 452-464.