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Yuanyuan Li
Life Science
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai
Language: English, Chinese, German
Quinoa
Breeding
Genetics
Agriculture
Crop Improvement
Stress Resistance
Sustainable Agriculture
Plant Science
Molecular Biology
Genomics
Areas of Focus
- Quinoa Breeding
Work Experience
- 2021-02 to Present - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences - Research Group Leader
- 2015-04 to 2017-10 - University of Düsseldorf - CEPLAS Postdoc
- 2014-01 to 2021-01 - Shandong Normal University - Lecturer
- 2011-01 to 2013-12 - CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology - Postdoc
- 2010-01 to 2011-01 - University of Lausanne - Postdoc
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2006-09 to 2009-08 PhD: University of Edinburgh
- 2002-09 to 2005-06 Master's: Shandong Normal University
- 1998-09 to 2002-07 Bachelor's: Shandong Normal University
Publications
- A near complete genome assembly of chia assists in identification of key fatty acid desaturases in developing seeds, 5th Author, 2023
- Transcriptome and Small RNA Sequencing Reveals the Basis of Response to Salinity, Alkalinity and Hypertonia in Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.), 6th Author, 2023
- Full-Length Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals the Impact of Cold Stress on Alternative Splicing in Quinoa, 7th Author, 2022
- Assessment of Phenotypic Diversity in the USDA Collection of Quinoa Links Genotypic Adaptation to Germplasm Origin, 11th Author, 2022
- Developing naturally stress-resistant crops for a sustainable agriculture, 2nd Author, 2018
- Combining genetic and evolutionary engineering to establish C-4 metabolism in C-3 plants, 1st Author, 2017
- Systems analysis of cis-regulatory motifs in C4 photosynthesis genes using maize and rice leaf transcriptomics data during a process of de-etiolation, 3rd Author, 2016
- Developmental Genetic Mechanisms of C4 Syndrome Based on Transcriptome Analysis of C3 Cotyledons and C4 Assimilating Shoots in Haloxylon ammodendron, 11th Author, 2015
- Was low CO2 a driving force of C4 evolution: Arabidopsis responses to long-term low CO2 stress, 1st Author, 2014
- Coordination between zinc and phosphate homeostasis involves the transcription factor PHR1, the phosphate exporter PHO1, and its homologue PHO1;H3 in Arabidopsis, 4th Author, 2014
- Whole transcriptome analysis using next-generation sequencing of model species Setaira viridis to support C4 photosynthesis research, 2nd Author, 2013
- Cell division activity determines the magnitude of phosphate starvation responses in Arabidopsis, 3rd Author, 2007
- NaCl enhances thylakoid-bound SOD activity in the leaves of C3 halophyte Suaeda salsa L., 2nd Author, 2005
