Plant cuticle biology.
Plant lipid biology
Bioenergy plants

Sep.2001-Jun.2004: Ph.D., Research Center of Plant Genetic Engineering, Changchun University of Agriculture and Animal Sciences & Key Lab of Plant Photosynthesis and Environmental Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

 Sep.1998-Jun.2001: M.S., Research Center of Plant Genetic Engineering, Changchun University of Agriculture and Animal Sciences & Key Lab of Plant Photosynthesis and Environmental Molecular Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Sep.1994-Jun.1998: B.S., Agriculture department, Changchun University of Agriculture and Animal Sciences

   

June. 2013-Present, Professor, Wuhan Botanical Garden. CAS.

Feb.2010 to May. 2013, Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant Stress Genomics and Technology Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Jan.2007----Feb.2010, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University.

Oct.2005-Dec.2006, Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology of Tsinghua University.

Jun.2004-Dec.2006, Assistant Professor, College of Plant Science, Jilin University.

1. Lü Shi-you*,2,Zhao Hua-yan2, David L. DesMarais,Parsons Eugene P, Wen Xiaoxue, XuXiaojing,Bangarusamy Dhinoth, Wang Guangchao, Roland Owen, Juenger Thomas, Bressan Ray, Jenks Matthew*. Arabidopsis ECERIFERUM9 involvement in cuticle formation and maintenance of plant water status. Plant Physiology, 2012, 159, 931-944 (*Corresponding author; 2 co-first author).

2. Lü Shi-you, Zhao Hua-yan, Parsons Eugene P, Xu Changcheng, Kosma Dylan K.,  Xu Xiaojing, Chao Daiyin, Lohrey Gregory, Bangarusamy Dhinoth, Wang Guangchao, Bressan Ray, Jenks Matthew. The glossyhead1 (gsd1) allele of ACC1 reveals a principal role for multi-domain ACETYL-COA CARBOXYLASE in the biosynthesis of cuticular waxes by Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology, 2011,157: 1079-1092.

3. Parsons Eugene P, Popopvsky S, Lohrey G, Lü Shi-you, Fallik E, Paran I, Jenks MA (2011). Associations of fruit cuticle lipid with fruit postharvest water-loss in an advanced backcross generation of pepper (Capsicum). Physiologia Plantarum. 2012, ISSN 0031-9317

4. Chao Dai-Yin, Gable Kenneth, Chen Ming, Baxter Ivan, Dietrich Charles R, CahoonEdgar B, GuerinotMary-Lou, LahnerBrett, Lü Shi-you, Markham Jonathan E, Morrissey Joe, Han Gong-she, Gupta Sita D, Harmon Jeffrey M, Jaworski Jan G, unn Teresa M, Salt David E. Sphingolipids in the Root Play an Important Role in Regulating the Leaf Ionome in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell. 2011, 23: 1061–108.

5. Kosma Dylan K, Parsons Eugene P, Isaacson Tal, Lü Shi-you , Rose Jocelyn K. C, Jenks Matthew A. Fruit cuticle lipid composition during development in tomato ripening mutants. Physiologia Plantarum. 2010, 139:107-117.

6. Kosma Dylan K, Bourdenx Brice, Bernard Amélie, Parsons Eugene P, Lü Shi-you, JoubèsJérôme, Jenks Matthew A. The Impact of Water Deficiency on Leaf Cuticle Lipids of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 2009, 151: 1918-1929.

7. Lü Shi-you, Zhao Guan-grong, Wu Ai-min, Jenks MA, Zhang Shu-ping, Liu Jin-yuan. Molecular cloning of a cottonbifunctional phosphatase gene and its functional characterization. Biochemistry (Mosc), 2010, 75:85-94.

8. Lü Shi-you, Song Tao, Kosma DK, Parson EP, Rowland O, Jenks MA. Arabidopsis CER8 encodes a Long-Chain Acyl CoA Synthetase 1 (LACS1) and has overlapping functions with LACS2 in plant wax and cutin synthesis. Plant Journal, 2009, 59: 553-564.

10. Lü Shi-you, Gu Hong-ya, Yuan Xiao-jin, Wang Xiao-ming, Wu Ai-min,Qu Li-jia, Liu Jin-yuan. The GUS reporter-aided analysis of the promoter activities of a rice metallothionein gene reveals different regulatory regions responsible for tissue-specific and inducible expression in transgenic Arabidopsis. Transgenic Research, 2007, 16: 177-191.
11. Wu Ai-min, Lü Shi-you, Liu Jin-yuan. Functional analysis of a cotton glucuronosyltransferase promoter in transgenic tobaccos. Cell Research, 2007, 17:174-183.