Associate Researcher 

      Nationality: China - Birth date: 19/11/1981

  Institute of Crop Science

      Inner Mongolia Academy of Agricultural & Animal Husbandry Sciences, Hohhot, China, 010031

     E-mail address: 200114050@163.com

       Research fields: Molecular genetics and breeding of sunflower

RESEARCH FOCUS

· Identification and creation of sunflower Germplasm.

· Genetics and genomics of important sunflower traits.

· Sunflower Breeding Technology and new variety breeding.

POSITIONS &RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

      · January 2019 - Present, Associate Researcher, Institute of Crop Science, Inner Mongolia Academy of Agricultural & Animal Husbandry Sciences, Major in Genetics and genomics of important sunflower traits, Sunflower Breeding Technology and new variety breeding.

      · January 2013 - December 2018, Research Associate, Institute of Crop Science, Inner Mongolia Academy of Agricultural & Animal Husbandry Sciences, Major in Identification and creation of sunflower Germplasm.

GRANTS

     ·  Inner Mongolia talent fund project "Innovation of sunflower germplasm resources and breeding of new varieties", 2021-2023, 100 000 Yuan (RMB)

     · Inner Mongolia Science and technology plan project "Breeding of new edible sunflower varieties with high quality, high yield, resistance to Broomrape and Verticillium Wilt", 2021-2023, 2000 000 Yuan (RMB)

 · National Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia "Construction of near isogenic lines of resistance to ledang in sunflower and analysis of their genetic effects", 2018-2020, 100 000 Yuan (RMB)

    · Innovation Foundation of Inner Mongolia "Germplasm innovation and resistance gene mining of Solanum nigrum", 2019-2020, 100 000 Yuan (RMB)

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER

    · Sunflower genetics and breeding, Editorial Board Member

    · Atlas of machines and tools applicable to agriculture and animal husbandry, Guest Associate Editor

    · Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica, Reviewer

SELECTED PUBLICATION

(1) Guo, Shuchun; Zuo, Yongchun; Zhang, Yanfang; Wu, Chengyan; Su, Wenxia; Jin, Wen; Yu, Haif eng; An, Yulin; Li, Qianzhong ; Large-scale transcriptome comparison of sunflower genes responsive to Verticillium dahliae, BMC GENOMICS, 2017, 18(1).

(2) Ying Shao; Yanfang Zhang ; Shuchun Guo; Lingmin Zhao; Xiaohua Sun; Xiuwen Huo ; Enhanced C arbohydrate Metabolism and Salinity Tolerance of Tobacco Plants Overexpressing a Vacuolar H+-AT Pa se subunit B2 (DoVHAb2) Gene from Yam (Dioscorea opposita Thunb.), Journal of Biobased Materia ls and Bioenergy, 2021, 15(4): 504-513.

(3) Yanfang Zhang; Shuchun Guo; Ying Shao; Lingmin Zhao; Linan Xing; Mingran Ge; Xiuwen Huo ; Transciptome Analysis Molecular Mechanism of Starch Synthesis During Tuber Development in Chinese Yam (Dioscorea opposita),, Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy, 2021, 15(5): 589-597.

(4) Lu Qiang Zhang; Qian Zhong Li; Wen Jin; Yongchun Zuo; Shu Chun Guo; Genome-wide analysis of H3K36me3 and its regulations to cancer-related genes expression in human cell lines, Biosystem s, 2018, 171: 59-65.