Areas of Focus
- Plant adaptation to abiotic stress
- Genetic improvement and genomic selection of crops
Work Experience
- 2012-present: Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1998-2002: PhD in Crop Genetics and Breeding, Nanjing Agricultural University
- 1992-1995: Master's in Crop Genetics and Breeding, Nanjing Agricultural University
- Selected for the 'Double Innovation' Professor program by Jiangsu Province
Publications
- A natural gene drive system confers reproductive isolation in rice, Wang Chunming et al., 2023
- Alternative splicing of OsGS1;1 affects nitrogen-use efficiency, grain development, and amylose content in rice, Wang Chunming et al., 2022
- WRKY53 negatively regulates rice cold tolerance at the booting stage by fine-tuning anther gibberellin levels, Wang Chunming et al., 2022
- OsTUB1 confers salt insensitivity by interacting with Kinesin13A to stabilize microtubules and ion transporters in rice, Wang Chunming et al., 2022
- OsRE1 interacts with OsRIP1 to regulate rice heading date by finely modulating Ehd1 expression, Wang Chunming et al., 2021
- Enhanced OsNLP4-OsNiR cascade confers nitrogen use efficiency by promoting tiller number in rice, Wang Chunming et al., 2021
Awards
- 2020: Jiangsu Province Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
- 2020: Chinese Society of Crop Science Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award
- 2020: Doctoral National Scholarship
- 2020: Master's National Scholarship
