Prof. Jing has over 20 year’s experience in the molecular genetic studies of biomass energy traits and leaf senescence in crops, with emphasis on the crop genetic improvement.

(1) Study of the origin of sweet sorghum and the regulation mechanism of sugar metabolism and biomass accumulation.

To reveal the origin of sweet sorghum by molecular genetic tools; To identify the genes and QTLs that differentiate sweet and grain sorghum and demonstrate the genome-wide patterns of genetic variation in sorghum; To identify the elite sweet sorghum lines with high stem sugar content; To increase the production and biomass of crop by genetic improvement.

(2) Analysis of the molecular mechanism of crops to abiotic and biotic stresses.

To analyze the physiological responses to abiotic and biotic stress in sorghum and maize; To understand the molecular mechanism of crops to drought stress; To investigate the drought tolerance and understand the regulation mechanism of stay-green and leaf senescence.

(1)     PhD, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, 1999-2004.

(2)     MSc., Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, 1986-1989

(3)     BSc., Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, 1982-1986

(1) July 2009 to the present, Group Leader, Genomics and Molecular Breeding of Biofuel Crops, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

(2) June 2008 to July 2009 , Postdoc Researcher, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Rothamsted Research, UK.

(3) April, 2004 to May 2008 , Postdoc Researcher, Department of ​Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Rothamsted Research, UK.

(4) June 1999 to March 2004, PhD Candidate, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

(5) September 1996 to May 1999, Research Associate, Plant Research International (Former CPRO-DLO) and University of Wageningen, The Netherlands.

(6) July 1989 to August 1996, Junior and Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director,TianjinSoil and Fertilizer Institute,TianjinAcademyof Agricultural Science,Tianjin,China.

(1) July 2009 to the present, Group Leader, Genomics and Molecular Breeding of Biofuel Crops, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Theme : Molecular genetical studies of biomass traits in sweet sorghum and maize . To explain the developmental regulation of sugar metabolism and biomass accumulation in sweet sorghum; Analysis of the molecular responses to abiotic and biotic stresses; To broaden the plant resistance and increase the utilization rate of light,

(2) June 2008 to July 2009 , Postdoc Researcher, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Rothamsted Research, UK. Theme: Forward and reverse genetic tools for studying wheat disease resistance. Specifically three subactivities: (1) establishment of VIGS at Rothamsted for UK and international cereal communities, (2) fine-mapping of Stb6, a resistance gene against mycosphaerella graminicola ; (3) characterisation of transgenic wheat lines with altered defence signaling genes.

(3) April, 2004 to May 2008 , Postdoc Researcher, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Rothamsted Research, UK. Theme: Molecular genetic basis of pathogen resistance in diploid and hexaploid wheat funded with the Wheat Genetic Improvement Network (WGIN) core project

(4) June 1999 to March 2004, PhD Candidate, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Theme: Isolation and characterisation of genes involved in the regulation of leaf senescence in Arabidopsis.

(5) September 1996 to May 1999, Research Associate, Plant Research International (Former CPRO-DLO) and University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. Theme: Seed development and seed quality.

(6) July 1989 to August 1996, Junior and Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director,TianjinSoil and Fertilizer Institute,TianjinAcademyof Agricultural Science,Tianjin,China. Theme: Plant nutrition and vegetable quality.

Teaching at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Currently, Mr. Jing mainly teach undergraduate and graduate students, the courses including <Resource Botany>、<General Biological Experiments>、<Molecular Biology and Genomics>、<Advanced Life Science>、<Plant Genomics and Molecular Breeding> and so on.

   

（1） SorGSD: a sorghum genome SNP database, Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2016
（2） Transcriptome profiling of developmental leaf senescence in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), Plant molecular biology, 2016

（3） Stability and genetic control of morphological, biomass and biofuel traits under temperate maritime and continental conditions in sweet sorghum (Sorghum bicolour), Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2015
（4） Living to die and dying to live: The survival strategy behind leaf senescence, Plant Physiology, 2015
（5） SorGSD: A sorghum genome SNP database, Biotechnol Biofuels, 2015
（6） Sweet sorghum ideotypes: genetic improvement of the biofuel syndrome, Food and Energy Security, 2015
（7） PAV markers in Sorghum bicolour: Genome pattern, affected genes and pathways, and genetic linkage map construction, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 2015
（8） TANG1, Encoding a Symplekin_C Domain-contained Protein, Influences Sugar Responses in Arabidopsis, Plant Physiology, 2015
（9） Sweet sorghum ideotypes: genetic improvement of stress tolerance, Food and Energy Security, 2015
（10） SbHKT1; 4, a member of the high‐affinity potassium transporter gene family from Sorghum bicolor, functions to maintain optimal Na+/K+ balance under Na+ stress, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2014
（11） Genome‐wide patterns of large‐size presence/absence variants in sorghum, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2014
（12） Activation of R-mediated innate immunity and disease susceptibility is affected by mutations in a cytosolic O-acetylserine (thiol) lyase in Arabidopsis, Plant Journal, 2013
（13） Early Transcriptomic Adaptation to Na2CO3 Stress Altered the Expression of a Quarter of the Total Genes in the Maize Genome and Exhibited Shared and Distinctive Profiles with NaCl and High pH Stresses, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2013
（14） Leaf Senescence in Plants: From Model Plants to Crops, Still so Many Unknowns, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2012
（15） Regulation of Leaf Senescence and Crop Genetic Improvement , Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2012
（16） Genome data from sweet and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), GigaScience, 2011
（17） Genome-wide patterns of genetic variation in sweet and grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), Genome Biology , 2011
（18） A mutation in the cytosolic O-acetylserine (thiol) lyase induces a genome-dependent early leaf death phenotype in Arabidopsis, BMC Plant Biol, 2010
（19） DArt markers: diversity analyses, genomes comparison, mapping and intergration with SSR markers in Triticum monococcum, BMC Genomics, 2009
（20） High-resolution melting analysis cDNA-derived PCR amplicons for rapid and cost-effective identification of novel alleles in barley, Theor Appl Genet., 2009
（21） Phenotypic and genetic analysis of the Triticum monococcum-Mycosphaerella graminicola interaction, New Phytol., 2008
（22） Early leaf senescence is associated with an altered cellular redox balance in Arabidopsis cpr5/old1 mutants, Plant Biology, 2008
（23） CPR5, a jack of all trades in plants, Plant Signaling and Behavior, 2008
（24） Arabidopsis CPR5 is a senescence-regulatory gene with pleiotropic functions as predicted by the evolutionary theory of senescence, J. Exp. Bot., 2007
（25） Ethylene-induced leaf senescence depends on age-related changes and OLD genes in Arabidopsis, J. Exp. Bot., 2005
（26） Ageing in plants: conserved strategies and novel pathways, Plant Biology, 2003
（27） Arabidopsis onset of leaf death mutants identify a regulatory pathway controlling leaf senescence, The Plant J., 2002

(1) A method for genetic transformation of sweet sorghum mediated by Agrobacterium, invention, 2019, first author, patent number: ZL201510441638.3

Study of the origin of sweet sorghum and the regulation mechanism of sugar metabolism and biomass accumulation.

Analysis of the molecular mechanism of crops to abiotic and biotic stresses.

Sorghum genomics for breeding

（1）Harnessing genomic resources for sweet sorghum breeding. "7th International Crop Science Congress" 2016-08-14
（2）Genomics and molecular breeding of sweet sorghum. "International Symposium on sustained pasture-livestook"   2016-08-11
（3）Genomics-Based Improvement of Sweet Sorghum as a Multi-Purpose Crop. "The 2nd Plant Genomics Congress: Asia taking place in Kuala Lumpur" 2015-03-18
（4）Sweet sorghum breeding and utilization in China. "The Sweet Sorghum Association" 2015-01-21
（5）Genome-Based Genetic Improvement of Sweet Sorghum (sorghum bicolor ) as a Dedicated Biofuel Crop. "The 2st International Symposium on Bioenergy and Biotechnology" 2012-10-15
（6）Dissecting biofuel-associated traits in sweet sorghum (sorghum bicolor ). "The 3st International Symposium on Bioenergy and Biotechnology" 2012-10-14
（7）Genomics-based approaches to improve sweet sorghum as a dedicated biofuel crop. "2012 National congress of Plant Biology" 2012-10-10
（8）What we need to do to make sorghum a sweet biofuel. " The 19th International Conference on the Status of Plant and Animal Genome Research" 2011-01-15
（9）Sorghum Genome Variation Revealed by Deep Resequencing. "UK-China Partnership Award Workshop on Sugar-Storing Cereals for Biofuels" 2010-10-31
（10）Sequence Polymorphism and Structural Variation in Genomes of sorghum bicolor. "The Second China-US Workshop on Biotechnology of Bioenergy Plants" 2010-09-19​

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