Huang, Xueqing, Associate Professor

E-mail: xueqinghuang@fudan.edu.cn

From 1989 to 1993, Xueqing Huang studied biology at East China Normal University (ECNU), where he received his B.A. From 1993 to 1996, he studied plant physiology at ECNU and received his Master’s degree. From 1996 to 2001, he worked for Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences as research associate. From 2001 to 2004, he studied in the Institute of Plant Physiology Ecology, SIBS, CAS, where he obtained his Ph.D. in genetics. From 2005 to 2013, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Max-Plank Institute for Plant Breeding Research with Prof. Maarten Koornneef. In 2013, he became a junior principal investigator at the School of Life Sciences in Fudan University and studied plant developmental genetics.

Research Interests

Using model plant Arabidopsis and crop plant rice and maize as materials, combining population genetics,classical genetics, molecular biology, genomics, bioinformatics, deep sequencing technology and other approaches to identify and clone the functional genes/QTL determining important agricultural traits (plant architecture, grain yield and quality), to elucidate the genetic and molecular mechanisms of these genes/QTL, which will provide the molecular basis for crop breeding.

Selected publications

1. Huang X*, DingJ, Effgen S, Turck F, Koornneef M*. (2013) Multiple loci and genetic interactions involving flowering time genes regulate stem branching among natural variants of Arabidopsis. New Phytologist. 199: 843–857.
2. Huang X, Effgen S, Meyer RC, Theres K, Koornneef M*. (2012) Epistatic natural allelic variation reveals a new function of AGAMOUS-LIKE 6 in axillary bud formation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell. 24(6): 2364-2379.
3. Huang X*, Paulo MJ, Boer M, Effgen S, Keizer P, Koornneef M*, van Eeuwijk FA. (2011)Analysis of natural allelic variation in Arabidopsis using a multiparent recombinant inbred line population. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 108(11):4488-4493.
4. Huang X, Schmitt J, Dorn L, Griffith C, Effgen S, Takao S, Koornneef M, Donohue K*. (2010) The earliest stages of adaptation in an experimental plant population: strong selection on QTLS for seed dormancy. Molecular Ecology. 19(7): 1335-1351.