Sclerotinia stem rot is a devastating disease in most of the oilseed rape producing countries worldwide, and is a major factor limiting yield potential and reducing seed quality of oilseed rape in China. To exploit and utilize plant resistant genes to prevent and control Sclerotinia disease (SD), our research focus on genetic mechanism of SD resistance and related agronomic traits in Brassica napus.

Publications

1. Jie Liu, Yupo Wu, Xiaobo Cui, Xiong Zhang, Meili Xie, Lijiang Liu, Yueying Liu, Junyan Huang, Xiaohui Cheng, and Shengyi Liu. 2022. Genome-Wide Characterization of Ovate Family Protein Gene Family Associated with Number of Seeds per Silique in Brassica Napus. Frontiers in Plant Science 13:962592. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.962592.
2. Jie Liu, Rong Zuo, Yizhou He, Cong Zhou, Lingli Yang, Rafaqat Ali Gill, Zetao Bai, Xiong Zhang, Yueying Liu, Xiaohui Cheng, and Junyan Huang. 2022. Analysis of Tissue-Specific Defense Responses to Sclerotinia Sclerotiorum in Brassica Napus. Plants (Basel, Switzerland) 11(15):2001. doi: 10.3390/plants11152001.
3. Chuanji Zhao, Luqman Bin Safdar, Meili Xie, Meijuan Shi, Zhixue Dong, Li Yang, Xiaohui Cheng, Yueying Liu, Zetao Bai, and Yang Xiang. 2021. Mutation of the PHYTOENE DESATURASE 3 Gene Causes Yellowish-White Petals in Brassica Napus. The Crop Journal 9(5):1124–34.
4. Chuanji Zhao, Lijiang Liu, Luqman Bin Safdar, Meili Xie, Xiaohui Cheng, Yueying Liu, Yang Xiang, Chaobo Tong, Jinxing Tu, Junyan Huang, and Shengyi Liu. 2020. Characterization and Fine Mapping of a Yellow-Virescent Gene Regulating Chlorophyll Biosynthesis and Early Stage Chloroplast Development in Brassica Napus. G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 10(9):3201–11. doi: 10.1534/g3.120.401460.
5. Yan Li, Caihua Dong, Ming Hu, Zetao Bai, Chaobo Tong, Rong Zuo, Yueying Liu, Xiaohui Cheng, Mingxing Cheng, and Junyan Huang. 2019. Identification of Flower-Specific Promoters through Comparative Transcriptome Analysis in Brassica Napus. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20(23):5949.
6. Minqiang Tang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Yueying Liu, Chaobo Tong, Xiaohui Cheng, Wei Zhu, Zaiyun Li, Junyan Huang, and Shengyi Liu. 2019. Mapping Loci Controlling Fatty Acid Profiles, Oil and Protein Content by Genome-Wide Association Study in Brassica Napus. The Crop Journal 7(2):217–26.
7. Fengqi Zhang, Junyan Huang, Minqiang Tang, Xiaohui Cheng, Yueying Liu, Chaobo Tong, Jingyin Yu, Tehrim Sadia, Caihua Dong, Lingyan Liu, Baojun Tang, Jianguo Chen, and Shengyi Liu. 2019. Syntenic Quantitative Trait Loci and Genomic Divergence for Sclerotinia Resistance and Flowering Time in Brassica Napus. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 61(1):75–88. doi: 10.1111/jipb.12754.